For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016. Light, fun reading, and while I'll try the next book in the series it wasn't hugely memorable. As for the actual story of Sunday and Grumble/Rumbold, I wanted a little more there and though it was fast reading and a decent-sized book at just over 300 pages, I would have liked a little more complexity and world-building rather than a mish-mash of fairy tales. Identifying the different stories that were being referenced was fun, but there's almost so many that it was distracting. Enchanted takes a bunch of fairy tale references and tells a fun story of a family of part-fae who can work magic, each in their own way. Then she meets an enchanted human named Grumble - the only problem is, he's a frog. They live outside a Wood where she goes to write in her journal - very carefully, as she has discovered that anything she writes becomes true. Sunday is the youngest of seven daughters (plus a few boys) of the woodcutter Jack and his wife, Seven.
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