- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: Annick Press (Feb 5 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1550376160
- ISBN-13: 978-1550376166
- Product Dimensions: 26.7 x 21 x 0.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 118 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Seemingly simple though his text is, Marlowe's style is sophisticated, inventive and slyly humourous. Recommended. (Valerie Nielsen Canadian Materials )
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"How did it go again?" asked Rebecca.
"Once upon a time," said Jane.
So begins a richly imaginative tale of childhood fantasy that marks author Pete Marlowe's debut in the children's literature world. Here is a fresh new approach to storytelling that radiates originality. In his spare yet captivating prose, Marlowe takes us on a journey into the world of Rebecca and Jane, two sisters who recall the life they led before the hand of nature changed their world.
Once four identical princesses lived a wonderful life in a grand kingdom, until the day an enormous earthquake shook the land to its very roots. Everything shook so hard, in fact, that time itself shook with it. The two princesses were tumbled out of their bed with their mother close behind, into a great hole that opened in the ground. They were shaken through time and space, through Ancient Egypt and the Wild West, to fall at last into the backyard of a trailer park.
Only Jane and Rebecca remember the story, because their mother bumped her head when she landed and forgot that she was queen in a faraway land. The sisters know that two other girls who look just like them have mounted the royal coach to search through time and many lands to find their sisters, the lost princesses. In the meantime, Jane and Rebecca keep their past well hidden.
One day, on their way to the school bus, they meet a wise old woman who recognizes them for what they truly are: princesses from a distant land, unwittingly transported by an earthquake. She reveals to them an important secret: there have been many earthquakes throughout the ages, and with each one other princes and princesses may have suffered the same fate as they. Some, too, may have bumped their heads, just like Rebecca and Jane's mother, so that they do not even realize they used to be royalty in another time and place. More importantly, just because they can't recall anything doesn't mean they should be treated differently than they were before the earthquake struck. For the rest of the day, Jane and Rebecca look at their classmates with wonder and curiosity, trying to guess who else among them is royalty.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
great book,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Trailer Park Princesses (Library Binding)
I bumped my head...once..and ended up in a magical far away land..much like this one....with princesses, ponds and a family of ducks, a bridge..rainbows..whales...banished by the wicked queen though..to a remote island...this has a much better ending..I enjoyed this book immensely
4.0 out of 5 stars
We All Deserve the Royal Treatment,
By Kay C Saunders (Sunnyside, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Trailer Park Princesses (Paperback)
Rebecca and Jane remember that they were once princesses in a faraway land until one night a terrible earthquake shook them and their queenly mother through time and space, dropping them into the trailer park where they live now. Unfortunately, their mother bumped her head on their journey and has forgotten she is a queen. It is only when they share their secret with an elderly neighbor that Jane and Rebecca realize that they may not be the only secret princesses, with or without queen mothers, in the area. There may even be a prince or two hiding nearby. Delighted readers will realize as soon as Jane and Rebecca do, that whether or not someone remembers his or her true status, it never hurts to give them the royal treatment. Leanne Franson's charming illustrations enhance this gentle story. Highly recommended for preschoolers to first grade.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pete's sister's review,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Trailer Park Princesses (Library Binding)
The Trailer Park Princesses was a long-awaited book (by me,anyway) and succeeded my greatest expectations. I was thrilled by theimaginative storyline which evoked such vivid images in my mind. The illustrations translated the words in perfect detail-Leanne Fransen did a wonderful job and should continue to illustrate this autho's further works.
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