In one kingdom, a prince refuses to marry anyone but someone who can tell him a story the ending to which he doesn't already know. In another kingdom, a princess refuses her own arranged marriage, saying, 'I'd rather be washed overboard in a storm at sea.' As fate would have it, the princess is washed overboard in a storm, and she is stranded with only a sailor's clothes to wear in the kingdom of the prince. Upon hearing that she will win a glorious prize if she can tell the prince a story with a surprise ending, she sets out to win. Can she invent a story that will surprise the prince? What will happen when she learns that the prize is the prince's hand in marriage?
Date read: 6/11/2010
ISBN-10: 0399229248
ISBN-13: 9780399229244
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