num_pages: 383
description: Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, spends the first years of her life listening to her aunt's stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. As she grows up Ani develops the skills of animal speech, but is never comfortable speaking with people, so when her silver-tongued lady in waiting leads a mutiny during Ani's journey to be married in a foreign land, Ani is helpless and cannot persuade anyone to help her. She becomes a goose girl and must use her own special, nearly magical powers to find her way to her true destiny. From the Grimm's fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible and original tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she has made her own. Recognition A New York Public Library "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing" A Texas Lone Star Reading List Book A Josette Frank Award Winner A Utah State Book Award Winner (YA) A Utah Speculative Fiction Award Winner A Beehive (Utah) Young Adult Reading List Book School Library Journal starred review A YALSA Top Ten Teen Book Nominated for the 2006 Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey)
language: English
title: The Goose Girl
titlecomplete: The Goose Girl
characters: Princess Anidori-Kiladra, Enna, Geric, Finn, Selia, Razo
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Retellings, Young Adult Fantasy, Fantasy, Romance
ratings_count: 142083
series: The Books of Bayern
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Children's Literature, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Utah Book Award
category: Children/Young Adults, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Josette Frank Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Waterstones Children's Book Prize
publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books