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Princess School #6
Apple-y Ever After
Can Snow find the courage to be the bravest of them all?
After years lost at sea, trapped by a curse, Snow White's father is back on shore. Snow is overjoyed, but the dwarves are wary--and it's soon apparent that the sopping sire hasn't washed off the curse completely. He has no idea who Snow White is! Snow and her friends will do anything to help her father remember the past, even if it means sneaking into the place that Snow fears most--the enchanted castle where her stepmother Malodora keeps the dreaded magic mirror.
After years lost at sea, trapped by a curse, Snow White's father is back on shore. Snow is overjoyed, but the dwarves are wary--and it's soon apparent that the sopping sire hasn't washed off the curse completely. He has no idea who Snow White is! Snow and her friends will do anything to help her father remember the past, even if it means sneaking into the place that Snow fears most--the enchanted castle where her stepmother Malodora keeps the dreaded magic mirror.
128 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2005
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Jane B. Mason
126 books102 followers Jane B. Mason grew up in a large family in northern Minnesota. She has written books for kids of all ages under many names and on many subjects, among them ghosts, Jedi, detective duos, princesses, twins, mean girls, and slam books.
Jane has lived in the midwest and on both coasts, but appears to have settled in Oakland, California, and writes almost every day at either a friend's dining room table or a little studio in her back yard, where she has a purple loveseat, a whole lotta books, and an odd selection of trinkets she has unwittingly been collecting since she was a child.
Jane has lived in the midwest and on both coasts, but appears to have settled in Oakland, California, and writes almost every day at either a friend's dining room table or a little studio in her back yard, where she has a purple loveseat, a whole lotta books, and an odd selection of trinkets she has unwittingly been collecting since she was a child.
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December 3, 2024
Next in my rereading-my-entire-personal-library project is a favorite series from my childhood: The Princess School! These books have such great messages for both young girls and adult women alike, and I found myself quite enjoying diving back into this royal world even if I'm far above the intended reader age now. The first four books (of seven) to me are the most well-written and cohesive, with my favorite being the fourth, Beauty is a Beast, a book that resonates a lot with me as a lifelong perfectionist. My least favorite is probably the sixth, Apple-y Ever After, which to me lacks the heart and sisterhood so present in the others. Overall, it's a cute and fun series perfect for elementary and middle school readers.
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July 21, 2025I was so obsessed with this book when I was younger and I just need to document that I read so I won't forget it again
October 24, 2010
I wasn't really engaged with this one. Not even on the level of being really, really annoyed by the message it was sending (as in Let Down Your Hair).
Snow White's witch of a stepmother had sent her father out on the high seas to get rid of him. (Not sure why she'd do that. Wasn't she competing with Snow for his affections and attention?) In this book, he comes back. Shipwrecked or something. But he doesn't have his memory!
So he becomes a gardener at the school while the girls try to help him get his memory back. Meanwhile the dwarves are all jealous that Snow's got her father back. And, seriously, people, Snow White is NOT THAT AWESOME, you totally don't have to be JEALOUS or AFRAID OF LOSING HER. Stop treating her like a freaking object.
Well, I'm going to spoil here, because I have a problem with the ending.
The girls sneak into the castle to steal the magic mirror, and end up breaking it by accident. But that seems to do the trick, because King White gets his memory back. And then suddenly realizes he left a ship full of his crew out lost on the high seas. A) How are they still out there when he washed ashore? B) Why did he not think of that sooner? C) Did you not have a first officer? Seriously, they're grown men (presumably), so if they can't take care of themselves at this point, what makes you think you're going to help them? You don't even know where they are or if they're alive. And either they have a ship that works or they don't. Not a lot of middle ground there. They'll either find their way to shore or they're already dead.
The worst bit is that he's abandoning his daughter, who's living with barely competent guardians, let's be frank, and is still under threat from the witch of a woman you apparently married for Snow's sake?
Not that I can expect better from this series. There are no honorable, non-ineffectual men in here. A couple of decent princes, and everyone else male is relegated to servant status. Oh, except for Briar Rose's Dad who's treated more like half of the Overprotective Parents pair.
Oh, meanwhile they're working on family trees. And suddenly we learn that Rapunzel knows who her parents and grandparents are, but they're 'gone' now. And she's totally into researching her 'foster mother' the witch's family tree. Which is full of witches and warlocks.
Yea, no, Rapunzel's upbringing is still messed up, no matter how much of a spin you're trying to put on it retroactively. I'm not saying you can't write the witch as a sympathetic character and the good guy in the story. But not the way you guys did it in book 3.
So, yea. Amnesia plot and stupid ending to get rid of the father you totally didn't have to drag into things in the first place gets you 2 stars from me. And I'd better end this review before I drop my rating even further. (I had started off giving it 3.)
Snow White's witch of a stepmother had sent her father out on the high seas to get rid of him. (Not sure why she'd do that. Wasn't she competing with Snow for his affections and attention?) In this book, he comes back. Shipwrecked or something. But he doesn't have his memory!
So he becomes a gardener at the school while the girls try to help him get his memory back. Meanwhile the dwarves are all jealous that Snow's got her father back. And, seriously, people, Snow White is NOT THAT AWESOME, you totally don't have to be JEALOUS or AFRAID OF LOSING HER. Stop treating her like a freaking object.
Well, I'm going to spoil here, because I have a problem with the ending.
The girls sneak into the castle to steal the magic mirror, and end up breaking it by accident. But that seems to do the trick, because King White gets his memory back. And then suddenly realizes he left a ship full of his crew out lost on the high seas. A) How are they still out there when he washed ashore? B) Why did he not think of that sooner? C) Did you not have a first officer? Seriously, they're grown men (presumably), so if they can't take care of themselves at this point, what makes you think you're going to help them? You don't even know where they are or if they're alive. And either they have a ship that works or they don't. Not a lot of middle ground there. They'll either find their way to shore or they're already dead.
The worst bit is that he's abandoning his daughter, who's living with barely competent guardians, let's be frank, and is still under threat from the witch of a woman you apparently married for Snow's sake?
Not that I can expect better from this series. There are no honorable, non-ineffectual men in here. A couple of decent princes, and everyone else male is relegated to servant status. Oh, except for Briar Rose's Dad who's treated more like half of the Overprotective Parents pair.
Oh, meanwhile they're working on family trees. And suddenly we learn that Rapunzel knows who her parents and grandparents are, but they're 'gone' now. And she's totally into researching her 'foster mother' the witch's family tree. Which is full of witches and warlocks.
Yea, no, Rapunzel's upbringing is still messed up, no matter how much of a spin you're trying to put on it retroactively. I'm not saying you can't write the witch as a sympathetic character and the good guy in the story. But not the way you guys did it in book 3.
So, yea. Amnesia plot and stupid ending to get rid of the father you totally didn't have to drag into things in the first place gets you 2 stars from me. And I'd better end this review before I drop my rating even further. (I had started off giving it 3.)
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January 19, 2010
I read the Princess School books Ii while back. They were interesting twists of well known fairy tales. She brings in The Grimm school for witches and The school for princes. The books are fun and cute. I recommend them fro 8-10 year olds.
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January 13, 2012I forgot?
August 12, 2013
My little girls loved this series of books. Great for 4-10 year olds.
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