Dealing with Dragons
Subtitle: A beautiful princess. A dangerously charming dragon.
Edition: First Scholastic printing ed.
Series: Point Fiction: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles Book 1 [US $3.25/CAN$ 3.95]
Publisher: Scholastic Inc., by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Published: September 18, 1990
Place of publication: New Yor, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780590457224
Copyright date: 1990 by Patricia C. Wrede
Subjects: Princesses -- Fiction; Dragons -- Fiction; Wizards -- Fiction; Magic -- Fiction
Genres: Young adult; Fantasy; Humor
First sentence: Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable.
Description: Once upon a time there was a bad princess...
Take one bored princess. Make her the seventh daughter in a very proper royal family. Have her run away ....
Princess Cimerone ran away to find some excitement.
She's about to...--BkCvr
Notes: ***Printed in the USA* / Book 1 of 4 / Portions of chapters 1 & 2 were prev. pub. in a slightly altered form as *"The Improper Princess"* a short story in the collection *Spaceships and Spells*, published by HarperCollins Publishers in 1987.**
Table of contents: title: In Which Cimorene Refuses to Be Proper & Has a Conversation with a Frog; title: In Which Cimorene Discovers the Value of a Classical Education & Has Some Unwelcome Visitors; title: In Which Cimorene Meets a Witch and Has Doubts about a Wizard; title: In Which Kazul Has a Dinner Party, and Cimorene Makes Dessert; title: In Which Cimorene Receives a Formal Call from Her Companions in Dire Captivity; title: In Which the Wizards Do Some Snooping, and Cimorene Snoops Back; title: In Which Cimorene and Kazul Make a Journey Underground; title: In Which Kazul and Cimorene Pay a Call, & Cimorene Gets into a Fight; title: In Which Therandil Is a Dreadful Nuisancem & Cimorene Casts a Spell; title: In Which Cimorene & Alianora Conduct Some Tests & Disturb a Wizard
pagenum: 1; title: In Which Kazul Is Unwell, & Cimorene Makes a New Acquaintance; title: In Which Cimorene Calls on a Dragon, & the Stone Prince Discovers a Plot
pagenum: | In Which Alianora Discovers an Unexpected Use for Soap & Water, & Cimorene Has Difficulty With a Dragon |; title: In Which the Wizards Try to Make Trouble, & Cimorene Does Something about It; title: In Which the Dragons Crown a New King, & Cimorene Gets a New Job