Later, Kazul explains that the dragons and the wizards disagree about the wizards' access to the Caves of Fire and Night. After being annoyed, the wizard leaves using complicated magic, and Cimorene guesses that he is a powerful wizard. While posting the sign, Cimorene encounters a wizard. She hopes that a sign on the road to the cave will keep would-be rescuers at bay. Kazul assigns Cimorene to cook for her and organize her library and treasure hoard.Ĭimorene likes her position and becomes friends with Kazul, but finds she must constantly deal with knights and princes who want to rescue her. She meets a group of dragons and volunteers to become the 'captive' princess of the dragon Kazul. Faced with the prospect, Cimorene runs away. Cimorene learns that they plan to arrange her marriage to an annoying prince named Therandil. The King and Queen take Cimorene on a state visit to a neighboring kingdom.

Princess Cimorene is frustrated by her life and persuades the castle staff to teach her fencing, magic, cooking, Latin, and other interesting subjects that are considered very 'improper' for princesses to learn. It received the 1991 Minnesota Book Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction. The novel chronicles the adventures of the princess Cimorene, who escapes her tediously ordinary family to become a dragon's princess. Wrede, and is the first book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles series. And Hey! Maybe start off with Dealing with Dragons.Dealing with Dragons is a young adult fantasy novel written by Patricia C.

I recommend it for anyone who enjoys fantasy. The book was perfect for what I wanted: a novel that was short and fun that could help me pass the time on a boring day. I confess I have not read the first book in the series, but that certainly didn’t leave me lost when reading this book. This is the second book in The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Wrede. Aside from this, I really enjoyed the book. She’s skilled with magic herself, for one thing, and she the Dragon King’s personal Librarian (and Cook) for another. Unfortunately, the dumb one always seems to be Cimorene, which is a great disservice to her. The magician Telemain gets a bit technical in his explanations of magical processes, which means one of the characters has to be the dumb one so that the author has a reason to translate it for her young readers. It has the classic tropes of a fantasy setting, but turns a lot of those tropes on their heads in ways that had me giggling and smiling all through the book. I enjoyed it as a 36-year-old, but I would have absolutely loved it as an 8- or 9-year-old. Upon meeting Princess Cimorene, he learns that the King of the Dragons, Kazul, is missing, so they set out together to look for her. He goes on a quest to find out the truth. A witch suggests that all is not what it seems. King Mendanbar of the Enchanted Forest finds a section of his forest has been burned away, possibly by dragons.

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