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Wide-Awake Princess #4
Princess in Disguise
With the help of family and friends, Annie and Liam's wedding day looks as if it's going to be perfect until everything starts to go wrong. Liam's father doesn't show up, nor do the magic-wielding guests. Members of the wedding party come down with strange afflictions, Annie's gown is ruined, a storm floods the castle grounds, and an unknown king lays seige to the castle. Queen Karolina decides that they need the help of her fairy godmother, Moonbeam, but a pea-soup fog keeps the messengers from leaving. Only Annie and Liam can get past the magical fog to find Moonbeam, but even after they find her, it’s up to them to discover who cast the spells that ruined the wedding, and why the unknown king wants to conquer Treecrest.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published March 31, 2015
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E.D. Baker
40 books1,586 followersE.D. Baker made her international debut in 2002 with The Frog Princess, which was a Texas Lone Star Reading List Book, A Book Sense Children's Pick, a Florida's Sunshine State Readers List pick & a 2006 Sasquatch Book Award nominee. The Frog Princess inspired the Disney's Princess and the Frog!
E. D. Baker was born in Buffalo, New York and spent most of the next eighteen years in the Town of Tonawanda with her older brother and her parents. She married her husband while in college, and had two children a few years after graduating from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. When her son was four, the family moved to the state of Maryland. With two young children at home, E.D. worked part time in her husband’s business and took writing classes at the local community college. She continued taking writing classes after the birth of her second daughter, but when she and her husband divorced, she went back to school and entered the SIMAT (School Immersion Masters in the Art of Teaching) program at Johns Hopkins University. After graduating, she taught fifth grade until her parents’ health began to fail. Her son had already graduated from college when E.D. and her daughters moved north to be closer to her parents. Having gained a new perspective on what is important in life, E.D. decided that it was time to believe in herself and devoted her time to writing. Her first book, The Frog Princess, was published in 2002. E.D. has written 25 books to date and has no plans to quite writing anytime soon.
Currently E. D. Baker lives on a small farm in Maryland where she and her family breed Appaloosa horses. They also have dogs, cats and goats.
If you have a question or a comment for E. D. Baker regarding her books, you can e-mail her at edbakerbooks@gmail.com and she will try very hard to reply to your e-mails. (Just keep in mind it may take a while before she responds, because she is working on a new book for you to enjoy!) For updates, announcements on upcoming books and daily posts by E.D. Baker be sure to follow her on Facebook.
E. D. Baker was born in Buffalo, New York and spent most of the next eighteen years in the Town of Tonawanda with her older brother and her parents. She married her husband while in college, and had two children a few years after graduating from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. When her son was four, the family moved to the state of Maryland. With two young children at home, E.D. worked part time in her husband’s business and took writing classes at the local community college. She continued taking writing classes after the birth of her second daughter, but when she and her husband divorced, she went back to school and entered the SIMAT (School Immersion Masters in the Art of Teaching) program at Johns Hopkins University. After graduating, she taught fifth grade until her parents’ health began to fail. Her son had already graduated from college when E.D. and her daughters moved north to be closer to her parents. Having gained a new perspective on what is important in life, E.D. decided that it was time to believe in herself and devoted her time to writing. Her first book, The Frog Princess, was published in 2002. E.D. has written 25 books to date and has no plans to quite writing anytime soon.
Currently E. D. Baker lives on a small farm in Maryland where she and her family breed Appaloosa horses. They also have dogs, cats and goats.
If you have a question or a comment for E. D. Baker regarding her books, you can e-mail her at edbakerbooks@gmail.com and she will try very hard to reply to your e-mails. (Just keep in mind it may take a while before she responds, because she is working on a new book for you to enjoy!) For updates, announcements on upcoming books and daily posts by E.D. Baker be sure to follow her on Facebook.
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April 21, 2015
I can't decide if the quality of Baker's books have gone drastically downhill or if I've simply outgrown their storylines and writing. I think it's the former, but either way, it's a disappointment. Her last few have been almost painful to read, though this was slightly less so than The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker. The main problem I had with this one, besides overly childish dialogue and a silly plot, was that this is the same (silly) plot as at least 3 of Baker's other books. I spent the majority of the book wondering to myself, and occasionally innocent family bystanders, "Haven't I read this before?". Millie and Audun Emma and Eadric Annie and Liam's wedding's plans are thwarted by natural disasters/inclement weather/pranks/hostile takeovers/kidnappings, etc caused by witches/dragons/nasty kings/trolls/others with bones to pick, etc.
THEY'RE ALL THE SAME.
VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.
THEY'RE ALL THE SAME.
VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.
July 27, 2016
Glad Annie and Liam got their happy ending. I don't think I'll be continuing with the series though. The first two books were so fun and adorable these last two not so much.
August 13, 2019
Cute story with a sweet fairy tale ending! Young girls will love it. 💖
March 14, 2018
Princess in Disguise, by E. D. Baker, is about a girl who magic can’t touch. It’s Annie’s wedding day, and things are starting to go wrong. First Annie’s dress, and then the decorations, and soon the castle is in a mess! An unknown kingdom is outside the castle walls trying to cause a war. Annie, and her husband to be, Liam, go to get help from a powerful fairy. As Annie and Liam venture throughout kingdoms and forests they face new problems. This wonderful action filled, romantic story, draws my attention.
This book is worth spending the time to read, because it broadens your imagination. It makes you feel adventurous, and excited. For example, when Annie and Liam go out to find the fairy, Moonbeam, they figure out the solutions to new problems. It is fun to see all the trials they face, and how they get through them. I thought that the beginning of the book, where Annie goes to help figure out problems with the castle was a little slow, but it was necessary for the book to move on and work the way it did. Other than the little bit slow beginning, I loved every part and moment in this book. I think the author did a wonderful job with perspective, and presenting the world the characters live in. She describes things well, and the picture painted in my mind, makes a movie of the book. For example, “The moonflowers bumped together, making a gentle tapping sound. Under them lay a soft carpet of a dense grass that felt spongy under Annie’s feet when she dismounted from Otis.” This is such a great description, and I could see it all perfectly in my mind. The characters words and personalities work together, and the story seems smooth, because the characters words are perfect. The book makes me feel excited, and I’m always ready to read more. I had my nose in the book all the time!
Don’t give up! This book shows that if you keep trying, you will be rewarded in the end. In the book, Annie and Liam could have given up on finding the fairy Moonbeam, but they didn’t, and they were rewarded in the end, with the help of not only Moonbeam, but also other fairies in the kingdoms. Annie didn’t just give up on the wedding, but went to get help. Instead of the original plans, the fairies helped to set up her wedding, and it was even better than before. Everything was perfect, and Annie and Liam enjoyed a beautiful wedding. This book makes me happy, and helps me in my life to use the themes and messages.
This book is worth spending the time to read, because it broadens your imagination. It makes you feel adventurous, and excited. For example, when Annie and Liam go out to find the fairy, Moonbeam, they figure out the solutions to new problems. It is fun to see all the trials they face, and how they get through them. I thought that the beginning of the book, where Annie goes to help figure out problems with the castle was a little slow, but it was necessary for the book to move on and work the way it did. Other than the little bit slow beginning, I loved every part and moment in this book. I think the author did a wonderful job with perspective, and presenting the world the characters live in. She describes things well, and the picture painted in my mind, makes a movie of the book. For example, “The moonflowers bumped together, making a gentle tapping sound. Under them lay a soft carpet of a dense grass that felt spongy under Annie’s feet when she dismounted from Otis.” This is such a great description, and I could see it all perfectly in my mind. The characters words and personalities work together, and the story seems smooth, because the characters words are perfect. The book makes me feel excited, and I’m always ready to read more. I had my nose in the book all the time!
Don’t give up! This book shows that if you keep trying, you will be rewarded in the end. In the book, Annie and Liam could have given up on finding the fairy Moonbeam, but they didn’t, and they were rewarded in the end, with the help of not only Moonbeam, but also other fairies in the kingdoms. Annie didn’t just give up on the wedding, but went to get help. Instead of the original plans, the fairies helped to set up her wedding, and it was even better than before. Everything was perfect, and Annie and Liam enjoyed a beautiful wedding. This book makes me happy, and helps me in my life to use the themes and messages.
May 10, 2015
So fun and cute and clean. Love the fractured fairy-tales and ED Baker has so much fun writing all them into her stories. Light and breezy. Wish I had read them all back to back though, maybe when they are all done I will read them all again together.
Moral Note: Squeaky clean.
Moral Note: Squeaky clean.
June 24, 2020
For me, the series tanked in this book. The plot was repetitive and having characters who are children (and best friends) marry each other seemed like an odd choice for juvenile fiction that is 100% fantasy and 0% romance.
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October 21, 2016I thought this was definitely a funny book. there was a thick mist made of pea soup! I love the suspense E.D. Baker brings to life as the story unfolds...
March 26, 2020
There was an awful lot of traveling in this one, with hurried stops that left me feeling breathless by the end of the tale; but I still loved it.
Waking on a perfect day for her wedding, Annie's peace and calm is soon shattered however, by torrential rain, a thick fog, bats, rats, squirrels and a destroyed wedding dress, not to mention an invading army outside their gate. Who could be so mad, and so determined to keep Annie and Liam from marrying?
This dynamic duo take on the quest, dodging strange pursuers and witches along the way.
I wish we could see a little more sword play in some of these, but they're still quite adventurous and appealing to readers of a wide age range, I feel.
Waking on a perfect day for her wedding, Annie's peace and calm is soon shattered however, by torrential rain, a thick fog, bats, rats, squirrels and a destroyed wedding dress, not to mention an invading army outside their gate. Who could be so mad, and so determined to keep Annie and Liam from marrying?
This dynamic duo take on the quest, dodging strange pursuers and witches along the way.
I wish we could see a little more sword play in some of these, but they're still quite adventurous and appealing to readers of a wide age range, I feel.
November 4, 2020
The literary equivalent of a tall, cold glass of strawberry lemonade, the kind with real strawberries in it, that doesn't leave your teeth feeling weird with whatever strange processed sweetener they use. Fresh and sweet with a two-fold appeal.
This world is so funny and low key and the whole plot ended up shaking out to "oh what a funny misunderstanding, we'll fix that immediately." Annie's gifts were always funny, and I kept forgetting that Liam had those random fairy gifts? whistling? sense of direction? Hilarious. A real who's who of funny fairy tale references, creative little magic things, peril that took three minutes to solve, fairies, all-around fun, and we're choosing to ignore that it's a little creepy that this middle grade novel has to center around a wedding. *shrug* fairy tales gotta fairy tale. I thought I'd need, like, aggressive comforting/distraction yesterday, like a real mint tea kind of book, but turns out that I couldn't even handle the stress of like, adults not telling the truth for plot reasons, I just needed this princess/prince team on a horse meeting ogres and making friends with them. Didn't take my whole brain and was always pleasant and sweet.
This world is so funny and low key and the whole plot ended up shaking out to "oh what a funny misunderstanding, we'll fix that immediately." Annie's gifts were always funny, and I kept forgetting that Liam had those random fairy gifts? whistling? sense of direction? Hilarious. A real who's who of funny fairy tale references, creative little magic things, peril that took three minutes to solve, fairies, all-around fun, and we're choosing to ignore that it's a little creepy that this middle grade novel has to center around a wedding. *shrug* fairy tales gotta fairy tale. I thought I'd need, like, aggressive comforting/distraction yesterday, like a real mint tea kind of book, but turns out that I couldn't even handle the stress of like, adults not telling the truth for plot reasons, I just needed this princess/prince team on a horse meeting ogres and making friends with them. Didn't take my whole brain and was always pleasant and sweet.
March 19, 2019
This is the fourth book in a series that objectively should have stopped at the second book. Did I enjoy reading this book? Yes. Did this book need to exist? No. With that in mind I will continue.
In this book Annie and Liam are preparing to get married unfortunately things start to go majorly wrong. There is magic hear at work so Annie and Liam must set off to find someone who can help them. This leads them on a wild goose chase going any which way before they finally find the person that can help them.
This book is very contrived to me. I felt like I knew who the likely villains were the entire time and to be honest I was correct. It also all wraps up with a few conversations fixing everything and then the wedding can finally happen. It was fun to read but it wasn’t particularly inspiring, if I had been the author I would have ended the series with this book but I know she didn’t.
In this book Annie and Liam are preparing to get married unfortunately things start to go majorly wrong. There is magic hear at work so Annie and Liam must set off to find someone who can help them. This leads them on a wild goose chase going any which way before they finally find the person that can help them.
This book is very contrived to me. I felt like I knew who the likely villains were the entire time and to be honest I was correct. It also all wraps up with a few conversations fixing everything and then the wedding can finally happen. It was fun to read but it wasn’t particularly inspiring, if I had been the author I would have ended the series with this book but I know she didn’t.
April 25, 2018
This is the fourth book in the Wide Awake Princess series. It follows Annabel, sleeping beauty's sister, who is cursed so that no magic good or bad can touch her. This book begins on her wedding day when everything starts going wrong. They quickly figure out that all the fairies and witches in the kingdom are behind it and a strange army is demanding their surrender. Annabel has to sneak out of the castle, since she is the only one unaffected by the fog that is literally pea soup, and try and find help before her kingdom is taken over. I love all the references this book has from sleeping beauty to that one were the bird has to repay a life debt and helps out. While it is juvenile fiction it’s still interesting to anyone who likes fairy tales especially as the main character just cuts through all the silliness and magic around her.
September 8, 2024
I read the first three books in this series when they came out but didn’t finish it at that time. Now, I’m reading them to my 9 yo daughter and she is loving them! When I asked her what she would rate this book she said “100 out of 5!”
My thoughts aren’t quite so enthusiastic. I liked it and enjoy the series for the most part. It’s cute. My problem is the frequency Annie reminds people that magic can’t touch her, unless someone is threatening her with magic. In that case, she just says they shouldn’t without telling them why. These are small complaints that really only become a problem when you read them all in rapid succession. All in all, it’s cute.
My thoughts aren’t quite so enthusiastic. I liked it and enjoy the series for the most part. It’s cute. My problem is the frequency Annie reminds people that magic can’t touch her, unless someone is threatening her with magic. In that case, she just says they shouldn’t without telling them why. These are small complaints that really only become a problem when you read them all in rapid succession. All in all, it’s cute.
May 15, 2020
For the second time this book was delightful, probably the shortest book I've read in a while but still good. It was great to see Annie and Liam finally get their happy ending. Part me thinks it's kind of ironic that this book is titled princess in disguise when she's disguised as a boy in all the other books as well. The whole continuation with Lilah and how it added to the conflict was interesting. While it did feel like the conflict was resolved fairly quickly and simply, it's nice to have a fairly happy and light, but still magical book.
February 15, 2023
Rounded down because this just didn't have any character development, any interesting new world-building, etc. Just a fast-paced adventure, which is the kind of story I don't like. I could go on about all the problems in the series... but you see that I'm still reading through them, so they must not be all that bad, you think. Only know that I don't recommend them unless you're desperate for some marshmallow fluff in between more thoughtful works.
July 14, 2025
I’m really just not the target audience for this book anymore unfortunately. All of the books in the series have been pretty similar and even similar to her “Princess and the Frog” series. This book brought back a lot of characters but almost too many and I had a tough time trying to remember who everyone was. I liked the ending and the overall bigger plot but just not the same as the first book on the series.
March 19, 2017
215 pages. I read 2 chapters and it was ok. There was a section describing a head that seemed to be floating. There was a magic mirror and a princess who is getting married. It kind of seemed boring and I would need to read the whole book to decide if I would buy for my school. I was not really all that excited so it most likely would be an additional purchase.
September 7, 2018
Wedding plans. What princess-loving girl doesn't want to see Annie and Liam finally getting married? Everything goes all wrong. Is another witch looking to ruin Annie's special day? The pair go on a quest to reverse the flooding and pea-soup fog. Maybe Moonbeam, the fairy who gifted Annie with her impervious to magic qualities, can help save the day?
June 4, 2020
I usually enjoy these fun books but the first 100 pages were boring as Liam and Annie went from town to town looking for another character-Moonbeam and referring to characters they had met from the other books. The second half of the book was more like the story I was hoping to read and I enjoyed the half.
August 8, 2021
I love this book so much! I also just realized if you follow the arrows on the map, that's is the path of the characters. (You learn something new every day! lol) But let me tell you, the ending is so sweet! I do love happy endings!
September 12, 2023
I loved this book. Annie and Liam go looking for Moonbeam all over and it’s a very big hassle. When I got to the end I was so happy that there was another book I nearly jumped up and down in happiness. You should definitely read this book, but read the other ones, first!
June 7, 2017
Better.Real better than the second and third book . It was good and fantastic. It is a clash between romance, fantasy, and adventure.
May 29, 2017
*2.5 stars
June 26, 2017
Read to Cricket.
January 21, 2018
It was one of the best books e.d. Baker has ever written 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😘😘😘
May 22, 2018
This book was okay. There was nothing special about it.
September 18, 2018
I love the advanture in this series so enjoyable ,, 4.5 out of 5
April 27, 2019
3.5 stars
This novel, like the previous one, focused mostly on Annie’s story. I do wish there had been more fairytales intertwined in the plot, but I did enjoy the story overall.
This novel, like the previous one, focused mostly on Annie’s story. I do wish there had been more fairytales intertwined in the plot, but I did enjoy the story overall.
July 17, 2019
Full of adventure and romance!
March 27, 2020
When a special ceremony is going to take place, everything starts going wrong. Annie sets out on a new adventure to make things right.
June 6, 2020
This series is amazing
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