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The Princess and Curdie (Puffin Classics) Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 1996

by George MacDonald (Author), Helen Stratton (Illustrator)

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A classic story of magic, mystery, and adventure in a fairy-tale world.

Princess Irene’s great-great-grandmother has a testing task for Curdie. Curdie will not go alone though; she provides him with a companion, the oddest and ugliest creature Curdie has ever seen, but one who turns out to be the most loyal friend he could have hoped for.

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10 - 11 years
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256 pages
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English
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5 - 6
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1120L
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5.06 x 0.69 x 7.69 inches
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Puffin Books
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August 1, 1996
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0140367624
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978-0140367621
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George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a minister who was rejected by his congregation, and struggled thereafter to support his family of eleven children by writing. In his own day he was celebrated as poet, preacher, and lecturer, and as the author of numerous novels. He is best known today for his vivid children's stories. U. C. Knoepflmacher has published widely on children's literature and the Victorian period.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Puffin Books; Illustrated edition (August 1, 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140367624
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140367621
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 - 11 years
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1120L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 5 - 6
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.69 x 7.69 inches

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- #2,169 in Children's Classics
- #5,183 in Children's Fantasy & Magic Books
- #7,047 in Children's Action & Adventure Books (Books)

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Amy

Edifying fairy tale

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 20, 2022

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This book on the whole contains a great deal of edifying
biblical truth, often in allegorical form. Children and adults alike will be entranced by the fairy tale aspect of the story and also inspired to become a prince or princess (of the heavenly sort), themselves. You can tell George Macdonald wrote this story for his children, as the hero and heroines are exactly the kind of people every Christian parent wants their children to become. So vividly written, I could not put it down!

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Franklin Waters

Wonderful Sequel to the Princess and the Goblin

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 14, 2010

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I have not written any reviews before but I felt that the works of George MacDonald deserved reviews to bring the works of this forgotten genius back to the light of day. Especially as you can get many of them for free on your kindle. It must first be understood that George MacDonald inspired such authors as J.R.R. Tolkien, W.H. Auden, Madeline L'Engle and E. Nesbit. C.S. Lewis regarded him as his master. If you are a fan of these authors then you might want to seriously consider exploring the works of one who inspired them.

The Princess and Curdie is a sequel to the Princess and the Goblin. While the former dealt primarily with the adventures of Princess Irene this one focuses almost exclusively on the young miner Curdie who struggles to aid the King and Princess Irene against the treachery of those who wish to overthrow their Kingdom. Unlike the Princess and the Goblin this tale starts off quite a bit more slowly and the first chapter or two I had to kind of struggle to maintain interest. However, once Curdie starts his quest the story really gets moving along and I was hooked on it nearly as thoroughly as I was hooked on the Princess and the Goblin. It is a wonderful fairy tale of adventure and a fair bit of action. There is much thought in the story and like the Princess and the Goblin the author illustrates virtues, vices and morality quite well. However I feel that he manages this without being too preachy. Still there may be some that don't like the pointing out of moralities so your mileage may vary. The characters are interesting as in the first story and again the Great-Great Grandmother of Irene wields a subtle magic manipulating events but only by aiding the primary characters in aiding themselves and others. It is only in the last desperate battle at the end of the story that this cunning Enchantress takes an active hand in the action.

MacDonald loves songs and poetry and often puts them to use in the story. However I found them to be distracting and they did not hold my interest. However that may not be the case for you. All in all though I greatly enjoyed the story and highly recommend it if you enjoyed the Princess and the Goblin.

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Wayne S. Walker

well written fantasy

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 22, 2016

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Thirteen year old Curdie lives with his father, Peter the miner, and his mother Joan in a cottage built on a mountain, and works with his father in the mines. After rescuing the Princess Irene from the goblins, as told in The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie has gone back to his life as a miner. However, Irene’s mysterious great-great-great-grandmother uses a wounded pigeon to bring Curdie to her so that she can send him on a mission to the King’s palace at Gwyntystorm. Irene’s father is physically ill and has fallen prey to the scheming of his sinister officials. Curdie, accompanied by a weird doglike creature called Lina who was once a human, sets off for the capital. What will he find is going on? Will he, Lina, and Irene be able to do anything that can deal with the plot against the King? How will things turn out in the end?

Most sequels are not as good as the original, but this case is an exception. Aside from a few references to drinking wine, there is really nothing objectionable. Of course, some fighting and even killing occur, but after all, this does represent the general battle between good and evil. The plot does take a little while to get moving, but overall The Princess and Curdie is a well-written fairy tale type of fantasy that can be enjoyed by young and old alike. Oddly, it is currently a bit harder to find than the first story. My only suggestion is to bypass the CreateSpace edition. It was the only one available when I went to buy the book, and there is nothing necessarily wrong with it, but it is hard to hold. Another edition that was released by Puffin Classics in 1996 and illustrated by Helen Stratton is now being offered.

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Triumphant fantasy, a brave lad and magic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 15, 2019

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A sequel to a well-known children's tale, with strange creatures, a fierce battle, beautiful women, a king laid low by nefarious people, triumph and magic.

Nope, not The Lord Of The Rings, but it influenced it, most clearly. Or all fantasy novels spring from the same well, unknown to us mere mortals. The writing style matches the age of the book, interesting and not dumbed down for children. An example:

"There must be something wrong when a mother catches herself sighing over the time when her boy was in petticoats, or a father looks sad when he thinks how he used to carry him on his shoulder. The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born."

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AK Mama Bear

Glad they married

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2022

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Glad the princess and curdie married. It's a good book, the first is a five star. This was just okay. It should just say The princess and curdie lived happily ever after the end. If your reading it to kids I'd end it there.

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Susan K

A great children's classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 20, 2018

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This Puffin edition has large print which is easy to read, and line drawings by Helen Stratton. These ought to be delicate illustrations but are here disappointingly thick and black and smudged looking.

The Princess and the Goblin (1st of the two Princess Irene books) is for me more enjoyable as it is optimistic. The This book was published in 1882, some years after The Princess and the Goblin. The Princess and Curdie ends in death and destruction. 2nd to last para : "One day at noon, when life was at its highest, the whole city fell with a roaring crash. The cries of men and the shrieks of women went up with its dust, and then there was a great silence..." Apocalyptic and the biblical punishment for evil doing! So women shriek and men merely cry out (in a more civilised manner?). George Macdonald has such a rich and wonderful imagination that both these books are well worth reading, I'm sorry to have given away the ending of this book, perhaps some may find the final descriptive writing good? (My sister preferred this sequel, but we were not good friends!).

MAR

Nasty edition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 27, 2013

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I needed to replace my original Puffin copy, which has mysteriously vanished. This is horrid. It's badly copy-edited, if at all, full of typos. An unsympathetic font and page size. I also have issue with the cover illustration: it's irrelevant to the story as there are no goblins in this part of the story; this is anyway a picture of a troll, not a goblin; and someone has used a beautiful John Bauer picture inappropriately.

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Caroline

Terrible edition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 2, 2022

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The book is published in tiny letters with no paragraphs at all! Terrible to read, how did this get published?!

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Charming

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 30, 2015

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