Happily Ever After (Puffin Chapters)
Eight-year-old Kate is a tomboy, but not your typical tomboy.  She loves  baseball and hates wearing dresses, but she can often be found in her room reading a  good old fairy tale and imagining herself as the beautiful princess. One day, while  dreamily staring at the princess's crown, Kate magically wishes herself into the fairy tale.  Now Kate is the princess and she will soon find out that being royalty isn't all that it's  cracked up to be.  After rescuing herself from the evil knight (the "wimp" of  a prince couldn't manage this on his own), teaching a witch and troll to play jacks, and  training her ladies-in-waiting in the art of baseball, Kate finds the princess life pretty dull  and wishes her way back home. Kate realizes that being her old tomboy self, minus the  crown, isn't so bad, and in fact it's pretty great. Author Anna Quindlen's charming story  will appeal to all children interested in dragons, knights, adventures, and living happily  ever after.(Ages 5 to 9)--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.