[PW] Princess Story Stumper

[Shari Haber]

Thanks, Daphne! I found another story from a British reading series that 
sounds similar, but I pass this info on. It sounds like a "winner."

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daphne Drewello" <drewello at daktel.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [PW] Princess Story Stumper


> Shari Haber wrote
>
>> Does anybody remember a story/fairy tale about a princess whose face 
>> was
>> so ugly that it stopped clocks? For some reason, she needed rescuing,
>> and the story contains a dragon who is sick of rescuing princesses, 
>> and
>> has to be prevailed upon to do so by a king. There is also a lazy 
>> prince
>> who was sent by his parents to rescue the princess.
>>
> http://www.whatsthatbook.com/index.php?xq=624
>
> "The Plain Princess and the Lazy Prince" (1958) by Joseph Schrank is
> available from Amazon.com:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007E18DW?ie=UTF8&tag=whatsthatbook-20&linkCode=as2
>
>
> Description:
>
> "The Princess has as face that stops clocks, instead of beautiful like
> princesses are supposed to be. The Prince is lazy and doesn't want to
> marry a princess. The princess is supposed to be captured by a dragon 
> but
> there is no vacancy!"
>
>
> Daphne Drewello
> Alfred Dickey Library
> Jamestown, ND
>
>
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