The story: four Princes Charming from four separate fairy tales decide they've had enough: enough of just being the handsome face, enough of being the muscle that gets the beautiful princess out of her dilemma, ENOUGH of not even getting their names mentioned when the song comes out! Almost by accident, the guys start off on their own adventure--where they fight a dragon, face down a giant, rescue the bards, and take care of the evil witch once and for all--with only a little help from the girls. This time, their names will be in the song for sure!
June Cleaver's ratings: language G; Violence PG; Nudity G; Sexual content G; magic and the occult, PG; substance abuse PG; GLBT content G; adult themes G; overall rating PG.
Liz's comments: this was a fun and funny story told completely from the princes' eye view--now that's a switch! Sadly, because most of the princes don't act in a typically "manly" fashion anyway, I'm not sure this is one that MS boys will pick up (possibly very good boy readers in grades 5-6)...so steer it to girl readers, who generally don't have trouble reading stories about guys anyway. There's plenty of action and adventure, and the princes get the un-fairy-tale-like taste of what it feels like to fail in areas where they've usually been a star--and to embrace the ways that non-fighters can also occasionally bring an adventure to an acceptable comclusion!
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