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    The Well at the End of the World
    The Well at the End of the World
    The Well at the End of the World
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    The Well at the End of the World

    By Robert D. San Souci and Rebecca Walsh

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    Princess Rosamond isn't your typical princess. She prefers good books to good looks and keeps both the royal accounts and the castle drawbridge in working order. When her greedy stepmother and stepsister scheme to spend the royal treasury and her father, the king, falls ill, Rosamond must set out in search of the one thing that can cure him—the healing waters found in the magical well at the end of the world.

    In the spirit of The Talking Eggs, award-winning author Robert San Souci has once again created a feisty heroine whose generosity and courage save the day combined with Rebecca Walsh's vibrant paintings. This is an adventure story that readers will turn to again and again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateFeb 1, 2013
    ISBN9781452126135
    The Well at the End of the World
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    Robert D. San Souci

    Robert San Souci is the award-winning author of many picture books based on folk tales from around the world, including The Talking Eggs, Kate Shelley, Haunted Houses, and the bestselling Short & Shivery series. A native Californian, he lived in San Francisco.

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      The Girl Who Wanted to Dance follows a young girl who feels the passion in her heart to dance. Her family dynamic is surely different from others. She mainly lives with her grandmother and father her mother absent from her life since she was a baby. Her grandmother teaches her piano and allows her to dance freely while telling her stories of her mother. Her father is a little more strict and once her grandmother dies he shelters her even more. Until she runs off to see the dancers in the forest where she really wants to be. One day her father chases after and she realizes "her dancer" is really her absent mother. When her father and her leave her mother behind he begins to open back up to her and wants her to dance for him. This book is very real and honest in family dynamic and I like that because children's book are lacking this sometimes. Her parents aren't together, she lives with her grandma and she is trying to learn who she wants to be. Great inspirational book for those with a different family life or those who have a passion, such as dance, and desire to follow it.

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    The Well at the End of the World - Robert D. San Souci

    A Note about the Story

    This story is loosely based on the British tale The King of Colchester’s Daughters (also known as The Three Heads in the Well). A version of the original can be found in The Classic Fairy Tales by Iona and Peter Opie; an abridged form is in Folk-tales of the British Isles by Kevin Crossley-Holland.

    The Opies note that the story was already traditional by Elizabethan times. A version of the story was included in George Peele’s play The Old Wives Tale, dated 1595, which provided added incidents and details.

    I also consulted parallel tales, including the title story in Norah and William Montgomerie’s The Well at the World’s End: Folk Tales of Scotland; the story Jack and the Water Fae the World’s End in Duncan and Linda Williamson’s Folktales of the Scottish Traveling People; and a tale by Norwegian folklorist Jorgen Moe entitled Bushy Bride that is included in Andrew Lang’s

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