genre: middle grade
When the infant Princess Amethyst has the honor of being given a gift by a fairy, so many possibilities come to mind - beauty, kindness, patience. What NO one expected was the gift of being...ordinary. It’s hard to imagine how much this might throw a palace for a loop! As Amy grows and learns what she loves, she finds that it is mostly OUTSIDE the palace and when the opportunity arises to create a different life for herself, she grabs it.
This little pink paperback book was such a part of my childhood. I can see my eleven year old self, lying on my bed after church, reading it over and over. I think I really connected with Amy’s ordinariness and the fact that it became her strength. It’s cute and romantic, a bit cheesy and predictable but so perfect for the audience it’s designed for. I couldn’t have picked a better “nostalgia” book for me.
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