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Frogged

Froggedcould be called a ‘fractured fairy tale’ with a twist.  You rememberThe Frog Princein which a prince has been turned into a frog by a witch and must be kissed by a princess in order to break the spell?  Princess Imogene, a rather impetuous young lady, meets a frog who can talk and who has told her that he is a prince and a witch has cast a spell on him and unless she kisses him he will forever remain a frog.  So she does.  And poof, she’s a frog.  She took the place of the frog, the lying frog who said he was a prince.  Now the only way she can revert back to being a princess is to get someone to kiss her.  That doesn’t sound so hard, but when people (the poor servants) hear her talk, they can only see the money she would bring them.  She gets taken with a traveling sideshow to be the star attraction and no one wants to believe that she is what she says she is, besides, who wants to be a frog?  A real prince who wants to do the princely thing and save her, willingly offers to kiss her….but her conscience cannot bear the thought of him becoming a frog for eternity.  Very clever story with detailed descriptions and great character development.