The Goose Girl
Author: Shannon Hale
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee for Children’s Literature 2010 (The Books of Bayern series).She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste. Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, espec….Read More
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