 Princess Patricia Priscilla is not looking forward to her sixteenth birthday ball. At it she will have to choose one of her suitors to marry and each is more disgusting than the next: Duke Desmond of Dyspepsia who is as ugly and irritable as a warthog and forbids all mirrors in his kingdom, Prince Percival of Pustula who has too many mirrors and a heart as black as his oily hair, and the Conjoint Counts Colin and Cuthbert who are too busy fighting with each other to care about anything. Princess Priscilla decides to escape her awful fate and her castle life for one week and see what it's like to go to school as a normal village child.
This book was absolutely charming. A light-hearted fairy tale full of rhymes, alliteration, and simple morals. The characters are completely over the top and hilarious. The illustrations by Feiffer are delightful. It would make a good read-aloud. The Birthday Ball by Lois Lowry Erica's Picks 2nd - 4th Grade Tags: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Humor
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