Legacy and Testament: The Story of Columbia River Gillnetters [Paperback]

Irene Elizabeth Martin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1994

Featuring your favorite Disney characters, these bestselling storybook collections have been completely redesigned with all new covers, gilded pages, newly edited text, and a classic new look with over 250 illustrations—including full-page artwork from the Disney archives.

 

Join your favorite Disney Princesses and their friends in this newly reworked collection. With even more stories dedicated to Cinderella, Snow White, and the most popular Princesses, little girls are sure to delight in this collection.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Washington State University (January 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874221099
• ISBN-13: 978-0874221091
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,813,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Latest edition of the Disney storybooks is the best yet., January 9, 2007

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Mark Pontius "mpontius2" (Irvine, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Disney Princess Collection (Disney Princess (Random House Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

Disney puts out new versions of these every couple years. I still have a set from 30+ years ago, and a couple from the previous edition, and three so far in this set. My three year old son loves it. The table of contents has pictures of all the stories so he can easily pick what he wants to read. The artwork throughout is more polished and cleaner than in the previous edition. An finally, the stickers are a hit. Not exactly ideal for around his 1yr old little brother, but he's growing out of putting everything in his mouth, so a bunch of teeny-tiny stickers isn't much of a problem. And I do mean teeny-tiny. There are a few stickers as big as an inch, but most are about 1cm diameter dots.
And a thing about the stories. The princess book re-tells many of the same stories as in the other books, but from the perspective of the female heroine character (mostly very well done), so they aren't exactly the same, but few stories are original, and of those few rate high on the creativity scale. Least favorite example (but unfortunately one of my son's favorites), Little Mermaid plays hide and seek with her fish friend. The story goes though all the underwater 'sets' from the movies, and they ask someone there if they've seen flounder, but always get a variation of the same answer 'I won't tell, but he went that way'. It ends fortunately with 'now it's my turn to hide', I don't think I could take the other half of that adventure, the excitement is just too intense.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great book for Disney Princess fans, February 24, 2007

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Kyra_Athena "Kyra_Athena" (Georgia USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Disney Princess Collection (Disney Princess (Random House Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

My daughter is an avid Disney Princess fan. The book is really heavy for a little girl though. The writing is too complex for her to follow or sit still very long. There should be more pictures to keep the interest of younger readers. If you have a preschooler or early elementary, I would recommend you purchase the bigger (taller and thinner) individual volumes. There are more pictures and the reading goes faster. I have a few and they have the Mouseworks logo on them.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice collection!, December 2, 2007

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Calypso (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disney Princess Collection (Disney Princess (Random House Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

I purchased this book for my daughter several months but she wasn't overly interested. She just turned three and has recently developed an interest in books with stories (vs. picture books). Now she LOVES this book. We have read a couple stories from this collection before naptime and bedtime for the last week. She likes selecting a couple stickers after each story, too.

Pros: Many stories that are a reasonal length (5-10 min to read), good pics, fun stickers, variety of characters/princesses

Cons: The pacing of these abbreviated stories is irratic. Most of these versions seem like they describe 50% of the real story in the last few paragraphs