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Princess Callie And The Totally Amazing Talking Tiara (2000)

by Daisy Piper(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

series

Callie Chronicles

review 1: I was looking for books on my kindle and found that this one was free it sounded interesting so I downloaded it. It's no longer free but its now 99 cents so still reasonable. I love this book, It's about a girl named Callie, cute name totally going to name one of my original characters Callie. Who is best friends with a boy, but doesn't have a crush on him. Yay finally a book where a girl is friends with a boy and doesn't have a crush on him. Wanda is the school bully. Her parents aren't around and she feels like no one cares about her so she's mean to everyone else. But I'm sure if she was nice to Callie they would be friends.This book switches between Callie and Lewis and Wanda and the Raven Queen which is cool!
review 2: *same review posted on Amazon*This bo... moreok was absolutely perfect for what it is, a novel for kids between the ages of 9 and 14. I picked it up because it was free and sounded cute, even though I am 25 I also read and paid for the second book of the series the same day. The plot and book have the same feel to them as the Narnia series. However the material is entirely original. If I had a daughter I would want her to read these books, the main character, Callie, struggles with things that any 12 year old may face. All the characters do. Even Wanda who is the bully at Callie's school is well written and sympathetic. I feel that the author did a great job really telling the story from the perspective of a 12 year old girl. The only complaint I had is fairly minor but at the same time central to the plot. This being the fact that Callie's mother had only died two years previous and her father was already planning to marry his new girlfriend. The girlfriends treatment of Callie as well as the way Callie's father responds to her is disturbing and leaves Callie believing that she can no longer rely on her father. This is a bad message and really inappropriate for the target age of this book. It would also be a simple fix. By extending the amount of time Callie's mother had been dead for, or having the father have a frank and loving discussion with Callie, instead of the girlfriends pressuring and mean discussion the author could have avoided all of the disturbing underlying messages she is sending to the readers. If I had a child who read this it would be very important to me to make sure they know I would never treat them, or allow anyone else to treat them the way Callie is treated by the girlfriend, and that I would never dismiss their feelings without trying to understand them as the father did.Over all Callie's adventures into Albion are a fun read appropriate for younger teens and preteens, it combines the secret wish of any girl to be swept away into a world where they are a beloved princess and the adventure that comes along with finding a new and strange world. I enjoyed the main characters and their adventures. less

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