Tuesday, November 2, 2010

The Little Brown Jay: A Tale from India by Elizabeth Claire

Rating: 6/10

A retelling of a classic story.  A princess who has a terrible sounding voice falls in love with a blind prince, but is afraid to speak with him.  She talks it over with a little brown jay.  Jay agrees to give her his voice.  She wraps him up with blue shawl, and he wishes he were a better color.  Magically, they swap, his voice for her color, she marries the prince, he becomes a blue jay with a terrible voice. 

References to magic lotus flower. 

End of book has 5 pages of text about different things about India.  Book is very small (22 pages with pictures and large font, except last 5 pages have more text). 

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