This was another book that I found while searching for new authors. It is a little old, but the story is very good and I think that students would enjoy reading this. The story is about a Princess named Elizabeth and she is going to marry her Prince named Ronald. One night a dragon comes and burns down the castle and carries Ronald off. All of Elizabeths clothes are burned and she is forced to wear a paper bag as a dress. She goes off in search of her true love Prince Ronald. The dragon has hid him in a cave and is going to eat him for dinner. Elizabeth tries to get the dragon to give her Ronald back, but he won't. Elizabeth decides to outsmart the dragon in a last attempt to get Ronald back. She bets the dragon that he can't fly around the world in 10 seconds. He does so she bets him he can't do it again. After a couple times the dragon is very tired and takes a nap. Elizabeth uses this as the opportunity to rescue Ronald. When Elizabeth gets up there to rescue him he tells her she is dirty and to come back when she looks like a real princess and isn't wearing a paper bag. Elizabeth leaves him there and they don't get married after all.
I thought that this was a really cute story. You could read this to your class and then have them predict and come up with what they think happened to Ronald since the story doesn't really tell us. Robert Munsch did a great job on the story and the pictures by Michael Martchenko are great as well. I really enjoyed this book and I think students would as well.
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