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4.5
This has been my favorite book ever since I picked it up as a toddler. It spins three tales about a young independant girl named Soonie. She faces many obstacles along her travels including a princess eating dragon, a tricky faerie king, and a multiheaded griffin! She definately doesnt need a prince to save her, (but if a prince needed saving, she could do it) questions everything, and finds her own way in the world. The stories along with the pen and ink artwork are sure to spark the imagination of any child.I came across this book randomly while looking for dragon books for my 6 year old. We both love it! Soonie is a smart, brave, capable female character. Mythical creatures and adventure! Great book!Beloved childhood bookThis book is a favorite from my childhood, a must have for every young girls library. The heroine is a strong role model.This book shaped so many adventures for me as a girl. Independent heroine takes on the world, fights oppression and magic, encourages others to do the same, and finds love and happiness, too. And a dragon.I came across this book as a kid and always remembered it. Mostly remember the illustrations. These are strange, almost myth based stories about a young girl, on her own, living out of a gypsy cart, but other than that very happy. She has several adventures, one I don't remember, the other includes a dragon that regurgitates her every night so she can tell him stories. It's blurred with my memories of the movie "Dragonslayer" (I was going through my Dragon phase)so I'll wait to reread the book before I go any further. I'm delighted to find that somebody other than myself is aware that this book exists, and I want it for no other purpose than to restore my childhood book collection that my mom donated to charity while I was away at school one day. I have never recovered the over the loss of those books, and no matter what the cost I will have them back! That and my Stephen King collection she threw out when she went through a religious phase, but that's another story!Completely agree with these other 5* reviews. Read it as a young girl, my edition had a few simple yet memorable illustrations. Mostly the tale is left for the imagination, sparking scenes of desperation & then celebration. Loved the heroine Soonie -for her independence, confidence, sensibility & of course her talents in singing, dancing & storytelling.This was my favourite book when I was a kid. It may have actually been the first book I ever read by myself; certainly it was the first I ever stayed up late to read with a flashlight every night for a week (and it only took me one night to reread it each time.) It's about a girl named Soonie who has to save her village from a dragon, along with the three princess it had eaten. Soonie fills the role of the young man in the fairy tales, except of course that she doesn't wind up marrying any of the princesses. I'm not sure that this book was really intended for small children, but I'm glad it was one of my first. It didn't teach me that I can accomplish great things even though I'm a girl; it taught me that I can accomplish great things BECAUSE I'm a girl. That is a lesson I wish more girls would learn.
