This is a cute little series called The Tales of the Frog Princess.. this book is the first in the series. I loved it. It is for middle school readers though.. it's not young adult. Here is the goodreads description:
Princess Emeralda a.ka. Emma isn't exactly an ideal princess. Her laugh is more like a donkey's bray than tinkling bells, she trips over her own feet and she does not like Prince Jorge, whom her mother hopes she will marry. But if Emma ever thought to escape her troubles, she never expected it to happen by turning into a frog! When convinced to kiss a frog so he might return to being a prince, somehow the spell is reversed and Emma turns into a frog herself! Thus begins their adventure--a quest to return to human form. Fascinating and hilarious characters ranging from a self-conscious but friendly bat to a surprisingly loyal snake and a wise green witch confirm that readers won't soon forget this madcap story. A fantastic debut from the talented E.D. Baker
I read this book for my Project Disney post on the movie The Princess and the Frog which is based off this book. I hadn't heard of this series until I started working on Project Disney. I just thought the movie was based off the Grimm story.
This book is perfect for all ages. It's clean and funny. Emma becomes a frog and goes on many adventures with another frog, a snake and a bat!! Emma is not like a normal princess. She laughs crazy, she is very clumsy, she doesn't want to marry a prince and she spends a lot of time at a swamp! She and her companions run into a fake witch and have to have battles to get away. The book is really magical and I can't wait to read the other ones in the series for quick fluffy reads!!
I am participating in Harry Potter moment of the week hosted by Uncorked Thoughts . Here is what we do:
This is a meme hosted Uncorked Thoughts. The aim of this meme is to share with fellow bloggers a
character, spell, chapter, object or quote from the books/ films/ J. K.
Rowling herself or anything Potter related! I will be picking a topic
within HP for us to focus on each week and then if anyone wants to take
part feel free! There is
now a full list of the topics to come here.
Q. Favorite Harry Potter film.
A. Wow.. I really don't know what film to pick. I always like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I just love that we get a peak at other schools. I just love the tournament too! I really love the maze. Though I wish the movie had shown the sphinx. I also think that the style of the students is fabulous! I love their hair and how they wear their uniforms. I feel like this is really what students would look like.
How cute are Fred and George in this film!! I love them with long hair! And the ball!! Quidditch games! We get to see Voldermort finally!! Everything in this movie is great!
And did I mention the Prefect's bathroom??? I want to go in there!!!!! Goblet of Fire is Epic!
I am participating in Project Disney hosted by Picture Me Reading! Go to her blog to learn more about it and participate!
Project Disney: The plan is to tackle all of the Disney films, re-reading the classic stories and tales that inspired many of them and to look at how the changes the filmmakers made, the new elements they introduced and the essential elements they kept. We will, of course, be talking about the films as movies as well, saying why we enjoy them and what some of our favorite moments are, but our focus will be on looking at them as adaptations. For the films that are not drawn from any one work we’ll be looking at some of the possible literary influences that we see in the stories.
This week we are watching and discussing the books for The Princess and the Frog. The books we are using are The Frog Princess by E.D Baker and the Frog Prince by the Brothers Grimm (you can read the whole Grimm story at that link). For those who don't know what this movie is about here is a little description: A fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and centered on a young woman named Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again. I love this movie. The whole Louisiana scenes in the film are wonderful. And the music!! Almost there is an amazing song that inspires me every time I hear it! I love the art deco art that is drawn in this movie which you can really see here:
Let's start with comparing this movie to the Brother's Grimm version. If you have been following my Project Disney posts you know I love the Grimm stories. I love the Wickedness that they are. This one is terrible too! In the original Grimm version of the story the frog's spell was broken when the princess threw it against a wall in disgust. That has always blown me away!! Speaking of evil.. this movie has one of the best villains in a Disney film in my opinion. It is the first time in a long time Disney has a true evil villain. I love the evil Disney Princess series, here is the one of Tiana:
Back to the villain... The Shadow Man! I love the Voodoo that he does and his "Friends on the Other Side". I mean the guy just straight up kills Ray. I remember when I was at the theater watching this I was like... did that really just happen???
Ok now let's talk about The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker which is the book the movie is really based off of. I hadn't heard about this cute little series until I was doing project Disney. I of course thought the movie was based off of the Grimm story. This book is a perfect fit for the movie. In this book... the girl who is named Emma does kiss the prince Eadric and is turned into a frog also. There is no villain like the Shadow Man.. the two frogs go on a journey to find the witch who started the spell in the first place to get it reversed. Just like the Disney movie.. they find fellow animals as comrades in their adventures. In the book it is a large snake Fang and a bat Lil'. In the movie of course we have Ray the lightning bug (the frogs in the book eat lightning bugs for dinner) and we have the musical alligator Louis. I love both these characters. They are fun! Tiana has a good friend in the movie Charlotte. There really isn't a character in the book to represent her at all. She is a good friend to Tiana though.
I had no idea about this book series... I loved this book so much I will for sure be reading the entire series! I think E.D. Baker does a good job of writing books that are a spin on this fairytale. One thing I would like to mention is I am glad that a black princess is finally being used here. Yes I know everyone complained that the prince Naveen isn't actually black. But hey Disney got close right? It was about time. Bravo! The book has nothing to do with Louisiana, jazz, or a girl trying to open a restaurant. I thought this was very creative on Disney's part and a good story.
Usually at the end of my Project Disney posts I show you pictures from Annie Leibovitz.. but she hasn't done a Disney Dream Portrait from this movie yet. Disappointing Annie!! That one should be next! I could go on and on about this movie and the book! I really do love both.
This is the day of the week where we get to know each other better by
answering a question devised by our lovely hostesses Parajunkee &
Alisoncanread. Sounds like GFC is eventually going away.. so you may want to follow by email or bloglovin/feedly (I love both). And now for
this week's question....
Q. School is Out! What is your favorite Summer reading book?
A. For me summers make me think of all those Fear Street Books. So fun!! Now it makes me think of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse books. This year is the last one and I have it sitting on my table. I need to get reading it. Those books always came out in May.. right on the start of warm weather. Sookie is always outside sun tanning. I just knew summer was here. I will be sad next year when there is no Sookie book to read. Oh and by the way I have been out of college for some time... so I'll just rock on!
I am sad that the Nook isn't doing too well these days. I really don't understand it... why people don't just love the Nook and use the Kindle or other reading devices. I love that I am able to go into a store and browse around and look at all the features .. plus have someone there to help me when I can't figure the darn thing out. I have always found the staff nice and friendly. The stores have made the Nook section fun... even though they are phasing out the Nook Color (which is the one I own) the Nook HD Tablet is a great piece of work.
The Nook is fun... but I am sure all ereaders are. I've been reading that the ebook market is slowly losing sales. I don't always read ebooks. I still love to have a real book in my hands. It is so hard to get new ebooks at the library so I have to have real books because of this. I wish there was more access for libraries to have new ebooks.
What about you? What do you think of the Nook going away?
Continuing on my epic Harry Potter re-read. I only think I have read this book twice before? Which isn't very much when I swear I have read the first book like ten times. I started re-reading these when I had to sit hours and hours with my dad at the hospital... and knew I need to get it finished. Here is the goodreads description:
The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses.
And yet, as with all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate—and lose a few eyebrows in the process. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.
So it's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort—and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.
I like this book a lot. I will admit sometimes though I get confused with what is happening in the book compared to what is happening in the movie. For some reason I thought Moody had already died and then at the end of the book he was at Dumbledore's funeral and I was like .. oh yea next book. I had totally forgotten how Dumbledore dies. Harry gets stupefied... and has to stand there and watch everything go down. And then Bill is bitten by a werewolf.. TOTALLY FORGOT.
I love Luna's commentary on the Quidditch match! I forgot Quidditch was even in this book. The background information in this book is great! I mean .. FINALLY we are getting some information about Voldermort!!
I just love Ron and Lavender. I have a firm believe that everyone should date someone other then the person they marry. Yes it can work if you don't do that. But I think everyone should date someone they realize is NOT the type of person they want to be with. Otherwise you might always think.. hummm.. I wonder what it would've been like.. no you won't do that if you date lots of people.
I also just want to know what exactly happened between Hermione and Victor Krum. I want to know this back story right now!!!
How crazy is Greyback in this book. He is WAY scarier here then in the movie. First we find out he goes out and bites children.. then we see what he does to Bill. In the movie we really don't know how bad he actually is. And it's bad. I really don't understand why Percy is still such a villain in this book. I just think that he really wouldn't have continued acting like that. I just don't. But I am not the author. Perhaps I should write some sort of fan fiction where Percy loves his family and comes home, and doesn't ignore them at funerals and whatnot.
I love Slughorn. He is one of my most favorite professors ever. I just love his style. The actor who plays him is amazing too. I just love how he carries himself. I also think it's sad that Luna and Neville are the only DA members who still are looking at their coins just in case something comes up!! I mean SAD!! The end of this book is just one big sad ride... I can't wait to get started on the final book.
The crystal ball says:
Sun is shinning!!! Great day to go outside and read this book.
I am participating in Harry Potter moment of the week hosted by Uncorked Thoughts . Here is what we do:
This is a meme hosted by me here at my
blog :).The aim of this meme is to share with fellow bloggers a
character, spell, chapter, object or quote from the books/ films/ J. K.
Rowling herself or anything Potter related! I will be picking a topic
within HP for us to focus on each week and then if anyone wants to take
part feel free! All I ask is to link back here, to my blog :). There is
now a full list of the topics to come here.
Q. Favorite moment in Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone? I think my favorite part of this book is when we first see Diagon Alley!! I wanted to really be there so bad. I would just love the shops.
I mean.. did you see today it was announced that they are adding Diagon Alley to Universal Studios in Florida? I must make a trip back NOW I mean in 2014. I had so much fun when I went in 2010 when the park first opened and you better believe I will go back for this. I mean 2014??? WHA??
Anyways.. back to Diagon Alley being my favorite part of the book. This is where Harry sees what wizarding is all about. Brooms to buy, robes, potion ingredients, familiars, and WANDS! Who doesn't want to hang out in the Leaky Cauldron? I would stay there all the time.
I can't stop thinking about Florida.....
Well ... that is my favorite part of the Sorcerer's Stone!! Here is a glimpse of what it will look like!
WOW! Tonight I decided to bee-bop around blogs and see what's out there. I like to do that every now and then. Go through the Follow Me Friday list (and not just read the post but actually look at the blog) and I like to go through blogger's blog rolls. Holy smokes there are soooo many dang blogs participating in book blog tours right now. I am SERIOUS. And not just one. You scroll down their page and every post is a blog tour for an author. I myself have never participated in one (FYI). I don't have anything against them it's just I have enough books I need to read. I don't normally mind them either. But I don't really understand though what do people get out of participating in so many? They almost seem like spam to me. Do you get more followers from it? Free books? Get your name out there? Do you really read all those books? Then I'll see that same book on like 5 blogs I follow in the same day!
Maybe I just don't get it... I mean I try to be a good blogger and post stuff that people want to read. Do people want to read these blog tours and I am missing out on this big party happening?
I mean every time I went to a blog tonight and scrolled down the screen and saw multiple blog tours in one week I was like... gotta get out of here NOW!
Anyways.. that's my little rant for the night.. at midnight..... I just couldn't help myself!! Am I the only one?
I am going to participate again in this read-a-thon! I really need to get caught up on some books andwhen I saw others participating in it I knew it was perfect for me. It starts on the 13th!
The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 13th and runs through Sunday, May 19th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 6.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.
Don't forget to use the #boutofbooks hashtag when updating on Twitter and follow boutofbooks.
I will be updating my progress here on my webpage and on my my twitter page.
I will only be updating to this page so check back here. I also will be doing my challenges on this link so scroll down to the bottom to see them!
Time Devoted to Reading
I will be reading 2 hours a
day/during the week/ not exactly sure how much reading I will get in on
the weekend... but hopefully a lot!
My Goals:
I would like to read 3 books. I am in
the middle of a Harry Potter re-read and really would like to get it
done this week finally. I have 1 book left. NOS4A2 is a long book... so I may only get Harry Potter done and this one. I might get to Reached... hoping to.
I would like to participate in a twitter
chat. I participated in one last time around and it was a lot of fun
and a GREAT place to get advice from other people.
Updates
Monday
Number of books I've read today: 0
Name of book:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Total number of books I've read: 0
Number of hours read: 3 hours!!
What else I did: Today was busy.. I waxed my car... did a whole bunch of yard work. So I didn't start reading until about 530 PM. But I am getting pretty far in the book! Harry Potter re-reading is almost complete!
Tuesday
Number of books I've read today: 0
Total number of books I've read: 0
Name of Book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Number of Hours I've read: 0
What else I did: Today I did not get any reading in. I would've but I planned a Halo video game night with a good friend who lost her spouse last month. This was the first time she wanted to get back into gaming since then. So I spent about 4 1/2 hours playing with her. I feel good about this.. so missing some reading is OK in my book! Tomorrow will be better for reading!
Wednesday
Number of books I've read today: 0
Total number of books I've read: 0
Books: 0
Number of Hours I've Read: 0
What else I did: I worked in the yard all day.. and then had to stand in line for Star Trek the new movie. I thought I would read in line.. but yea right!
Thursday
Number of books I've read today: 1
Total number of books I've read: 1
Books:The Frog Princess by E.D Baker
Number of Hours I've Read:3
What else I did: Can you believe it.. I read a book. 214 pages. I had to squeeze this one in because tomorrow is my Project Disney post about The Princess and the Frog. This book just came in today so I was forced to read it!! Be on the look out for my post tomorrow.
Friday
Number of books I've read today: 0
Total number of books I've read: 1
Books: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Number of Hours I've Read: 1
What else I did: Today I was busy and then I finally went to see Iron Man 3.. so my reading time wasn't all that great. :(
Saturday
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Total number of books I've read:
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Sunday
Number of books I've read today:
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Challenges:
Challenge 1:
Book Spine Poetry hosted by Escape Through the PagesMake a Book Spine Poetry Poem. Well I suck at poetry and I mean big time!!
so here is what I came up with:
It says... The Historian is Missing... BLOOD! Said the Cat.... The Gunslinger only found Shadow and Bone. Yea I had to add words to make it make sense!!! I don't have a large collection of books because I get most books from the library. And the two in the middle are OLD books from when I was in middle school and my mom would buy me Fear Street books. They had the most interesting titles to use. This was so much fun!!
Do I have any books tied to music? Well this is a good one. I have to think. I don't normally think of music to books. Unless the book has music mentioned in it. So I guess I will go with those...
I recently read Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell.. which of course takes place in the 80s. So that made me think of Rock Of Ages (the broadway show.. the movie was so-so... but Tom Cruise was hot...) Ok back on subject...
I have never really loved the title for the Harry Potter book I am reading.. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I don't know why. It's just I feel like the book was more then that. Harry Potter and He Who Must Not Be Named. That should've been the name of at least one of the books I think... I used to have this poster long before the movies came out that said "He Who Must Not Be Named". I must've thrown it out years ago.
Challenge 4:
Create a Cover hosted by I Talk Books!
GAW! Didn't get to this one
Wow... well let me think... I am going to pick Superman comics... yes all Superman comics!! Superman is my husband Eddie. He is amazing.
Superman and my husband are brave and kind-hearted hero with a strong sense of justice, morality, and righteousness. I believe that my husband really tries to help others without question. His integrity drives me nuts sometimes. He refuses to be a bad person and we need more of him in this world. Here we are!!
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Author - I'm Angie!! I love to read! I moderate two amazing groups on goodreads, the YA Book Club and Stephen King Fan group. I have really enjoyed blogging and love to share my point of view on books. I also love video games and movies so you might see those every now and then on the blog. Happy Reading!
