the goose girl

a young adult book by Shannon Hale presents Anidori Kiladra Talianna born crown princess of her country on the shore of some ambiguity about her upcoming arranged marriage. As she faces this situation she knows she must think herself through her mother's own kingdom dream for her. She begins a journey to the center of herself at her time of greatest blessing.

Our hero princess finds independence after a mutiny of the very kingdom she is to rule and reign over. Her knowledge of what she is to do as queen, she begins to learn of by her emergent transformation at every level that that which empowers her to easily overcome and subdue those who only once thought that they owned her very own essence.

Learning about her kingdom from the inside out through each person she meets and befriends this coming of age young adult fantasy story speaks through the character of Princess Anidori how a young woman may best grow and learn about her world.

A young woman hides her true identity under a make believe pseudonym name while serving as the primary caretaker of a flock of the beloved pets of her betrothed future husband's kingdom. As she tends to his geese as if her very own while he has no idea that she is a real princess, the position of Anidori as the Goose Girl helps her to obtain enough information to save several kingdoms. His and her own. (#vacation #dream #summer)

The many and various adventures and much colorful fairy tale here describes a story of great redemption as the theme of the underlay. The tale both teaches and entertains during time spent reading about and getting to know each character of the book from the queen mother to the king father and the common folk of Kildenree and even Anidori-Kiladra Talianna's own talking horse. The princess makes the most of her time of solitude as she learns about the duties of real and daily life from the villagers of the kingdom of Bayern.

Based on an original 1815 Grimm's Brothers fairy tale, the book first translated into English by Edgar Taylor in 1826, this modern version of the book has 383 pages and met a publication date of 2003 under Bound-To-Be-Bound Books in Jacksonville, Illinois.