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Disney Princess A Jewel Story
Brave Legend of the Emeralds
The Macintosh clan has come to DunBroch to celebrate the Rites of Summer, and Merida can't wait for the games to begin! In the spirit of the festival, she challenges Young Macintosh to a race to the to of the Fire Falls. There, they make an incredible discovery--two glowing emeralds. But when they take the jewels, the Fire Falls turn dark. Will they unravel the secret legend of the emerald before their fates change forever?
102 pages, Hardcover
First published June 11, 2013
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Ellie O'Ryan
92 books15 followersEllie O’Ryan loves chocolate almost as much as she loves writing books for kids. She is the author of more than 300 books for children and has a secret chocolate stash hidden in her office for late-night writing sessions. Ellie lives in North Carolina with her husband, two kids, three cats, and one dog.
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April 20, 2015 I'm glad they figured out what the purpose of the emeralds was and were able to amend their error before catastrophic events took place. No good has ever come from arguing. My brother should read this book, I may get it for him for Christmas. I'm sure he'll be very pleased.
August 23, 2016
This special edition is really a gorgeous book. The jacket and hardcover are a dark emerald green, with gold knotwork and small green "emeralds" running across the top and bottom and around the circular illustrations on the front and back covers. The hardcover without the dust jacket is not a minimal design, but has every detail of the jacket without the distraction of a barcode. The inside flaps of the jacket also have the knot and emerald border, with a description on the front flap and a gorgeous circular illustration of Merida's bow on the back flap. The endpapers are a lovely gold to match the knotwork.
I would encourage Brave fans of all ages to pick up this elegant special edition.
The book is printed in kid-friendly large print on crisp bright-white paper. The illustrations are black and white but very detailed and true to the designs of the film. The story is simple, but as all Brave fans know, "legends are lessons" and Legend of the Emeralds teaches a few important ones.
I would encourage Brave fans of all ages to pick up this elegant special edition.
The book is printed in kid-friendly large print on crisp bright-white paper. The illustrations are black and white but very detailed and true to the designs of the film. The story is simple, but as all Brave fans know, "legends are lessons" and Legend of the Emeralds teaches a few important ones.
August 18, 2023
Surprisingly we found this whole series at the thrift bookstore and my niece chose to get it. As a result I was tasked with getting the chance to read all the books to see how well they would stand up - do they stand closer to Classic Disney or are they capitalist woke Disney? Or maybe just capitalist Disney trying to get a bit of a mystery theme going on....
First of all some statistics for the whole series. There are included only eight books in this series with a mix of Disney princesses with some older ones and some rather newer ones combined together - Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Tiana, Merida and Rapunzel. Out of the eight shown on the box only Cinderella, Merida and Rapunzel are wearing the same dresses on the covers of their books while the other princesses are in different gowns. Meanwhile Tiana and Aurora are both in dresses that I have never seen in any of their canons whether their animated films or the Princess brand. Furthermore there is a listing on the box of the books, which is the way that I chose to read these books, but they can be truthfully read in any order as the reader may wish although I would honestly say Rapunzel's story should be last since that was the one that least interested me.
Each of the books has been illustrated with brightly colored full-page illustrations that are based off their animated films while those like Merida and Rapunzel had to be made into cartoons with Merida pretty much making the cut while Rapunzel didn't fare so well in my opinion.
And then a last statistic for the series, which rather confused me, is that the majority of these stories take place after the films in which these characters appear. Unfortunately the only exceptions to this rule seems to be Belle as her story is meant to take place some time shortly after she has moved into the castle as Beast's prisoner and Rapunzel as her story is meant to take place after she escaped the tower and went through the village but just before the lanterns were released thus making their stories seem more like fan-fic episodes.
This book for Merida told a bit of a portion of the first film but more it was indirect mentions than it was an actual summary such as the reader would find in the story for Cinderella. As such there was a bit more to explore in this telling even though all the events occurred in really just one day. And to met it felt like there was a love interest introduced even when it wasn't meant to to be an aspect of her original story.
Although her parents are implied while seeming to sound the same as they were in the film, this book focuses more on Young MacIntosh and Merida. Even the story basically sounds like a retelling of the first although switching the characters involved, the reasons behind it and offering about the same solution so it wasn't too much of a change although again putting it where Merida uses her a head a bit more instead of her quicksilver mood.
To me it was a decent and interesting read while rather quick when you got down into it. Just really not too creative in total consideration.
First of all some statistics for the whole series. There are included only eight books in this series with a mix of Disney princesses with some older ones and some rather newer ones combined together - Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Tiana, Merida and Rapunzel. Out of the eight shown on the box only Cinderella, Merida and Rapunzel are wearing the same dresses on the covers of their books while the other princesses are in different gowns. Meanwhile Tiana and Aurora are both in dresses that I have never seen in any of their canons whether their animated films or the Princess brand. Furthermore there is a listing on the box of the books, which is the way that I chose to read these books, but they can be truthfully read in any order as the reader may wish although I would honestly say Rapunzel's story should be last since that was the one that least interested me.
Each of the books has been illustrated with brightly colored full-page illustrations that are based off their animated films while those like Merida and Rapunzel had to be made into cartoons with Merida pretty much making the cut while Rapunzel didn't fare so well in my opinion.
And then a last statistic for the series, which rather confused me, is that the majority of these stories take place after the films in which these characters appear. Unfortunately the only exceptions to this rule seems to be Belle as her story is meant to take place some time shortly after she has moved into the castle as Beast's prisoner and Rapunzel as her story is meant to take place after she escaped the tower and went through the village but just before the lanterns were released thus making their stories seem more like fan-fic episodes.
This book for Merida told a bit of a portion of the first film but more it was indirect mentions than it was an actual summary such as the reader would find in the story for Cinderella. As such there was a bit more to explore in this telling even though all the events occurred in really just one day. And to met it felt like there was a love interest introduced even when it wasn't meant to to be an aspect of her original story.
Although her parents are implied while seeming to sound the same as they were in the film, this book focuses more on Young MacIntosh and Merida. Even the story basically sounds like a retelling of the first although switching the characters involved, the reasons behind it and offering about the same solution so it wasn't too much of a change although again putting it where Merida uses her a head a bit more instead of her quicksilver mood.
To me it was a decent and interesting read while rather quick when you got down into it. Just really not too creative in total consideration.
February 27, 2019
Read this aloud with my 4-year-old which was fun (mostly because she thought my Scottish accent was funny) but the story itself was just ok. We love Merida but even my daughter was able to predict the ending a mile away.
October 4, 2022
Very cute.
January 15, 2023
Kinda boring ngl
December 18, 2023
Heartwarming
December 30, 2014
Reading middle grade for research. Yay.
May 20, 2015
Very cute story. I loved it. Fans of Brave will truly love this book.
September 8, 2015
It was allright. I need to refresh my knowledge about Merida before OUAT starts up again. The cover is beautiful. The story was very simple, but not bad.
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December 8, 2020An easy story to follow for my little one (she's almost four and LOVES Merida).
August 12, 2021
A fun book to read with my niece.
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