The Frog Princess

By: E. D. Baker

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Princess Emma will do just about anything to get out of marrying the self-centered Prince Jorge. So when she meets a frog named Eadric who claims, of course, to be a prince, she decides to give him a kiss and see what happens. Bad idea. The frog stays a frog, and worse still, Emma turns into a frog herself. It turns out only the person who cast the spell can break it, so Emma and Eadric are soon hopping along trying to find the witch who can make them human again. This clever twist on the classic fairy tale is full of good-natured fun and romance.

©2002 E.D. Baker (P)2005 Recorded Books, LLC

Very Entertaining

Thoroughly enjoyed this audio book and am passing it on to my granddaughters, ages 9 - 13. It kept me interested from beginning to end with many unexpected twists and turns.

Very cute Middle School appropriate book.

The Frog Princess is a very cute story that would be age appropriate for elementary school or middle school children. I even enjoyed it as an adult with a child's heart.

i was entertained

a great childrens story humorus adventure were kissing the frog well... didnt have the expected results ive listened several times a nice walk into childhood emagination loved it

Entertaining!

My children (11, 8 and 5) all enjoyed listening to this "modern" fairy tale while on a roadtrip. The story is entertaining, humorous and made the trip all the more pleasant.

Great story!

I couldn't put it down! From the first few sentences I was captured by the thrill of the story and enjoyed every moment.

Enjoyable for the whole family

This is a great book for a family car trip. We all enjoyed it - from my eight-year-old daughter through my teenaged sons (honestly!) to me. No one even minded listening to sections again so that others could catch up. Excellent

Good soup

Good. Very very good. Good soup. Great book. Good. Good soup. Amazing. Good book. Amazing.

Frog Princess

Audibles is a great learning accessory to school and the Accelerated Reader program. It helps with reading longer books and helps with memory for the AR test. It has been a lifesaver.

Great Story, can’t listen to this reader!

This is my first review and I’m sorry it will be such a negative one, but I assure you, it is warranted. I am reading the series along with my middle-school aged nephew. But he has more time on his 12 year old school boy hands than I do. So I was attempting to keep pace with him by listening to the audio book.
But that’s a definite hard NOPE.
This is the first time EVER in all my years of listening to audiobooks that I could not tolerate the recorded reader!
First and foremost I CAN HEAR ALL OF HER MOUTHSOUNDS. It’s soooo off-putting, to say the very least. I have never even heard an unscripted BREATH from any recorded reader before, but this one? I am pretty sure I can hear spit strings *wretch* !

The second strike that I cannot forgive is that the book is written in first person from the perspective of a 14 year old girl. But the reader sounds like a 40 year old woman who took elocution classes and failed out.

I do NOT recommend this audiobook to ANYONE with ears of any kind.

Simple and cute fairy tale with a twist

Series Info/Source: This is the first book in the Tales of the Frog Princess series. I borrowed this audiobook through Audible Escapes.

Audiobook Quality (4/5): The audiobook was decently done, no complaints. The narrator was easy to listen to and did character voices well.

Story (3/5): This is a very simple story intended for a younger audience, I did not enjoy it much, it was just too simple for me. It's a typical fairy tale with a bit of a twist. The plot is very basic and it is written at a low reading level and predictable. It's not a bad story, I just didn't find it all that interesting. The premise of the story is that Princess Emma wants to get out of marrying Prince Jorge so she kisses a frog in the swamp who says he’s a prince. Instead Emma herself is turned into a frog and her and the frog (Eadric) now both have to figure out how to be turned human again.

Characters (2/5): The characters were okay I guess. They are very over characterized and very one dimensional. I thought Emma’s humored tolerance of Eadric’s ridiculousness was silly and patronizing. Eadric was a pretty lame character and because of his denseness was unable to form any type of equal partnership with Emma. All the characters in here were childish and somewhat annoying.

Setting (3/5): This whole story is set in a very typical type of fairy tale world. You got your basic castle, spooky forest, etc. Nothing special here.

Writing Style (2/5): The whole story is written in a very simple and straight-forward style. It comes across as an over-characterized fairy tale, yes there is a twist but it was more silly than ironic. I just didn’t enjoy this. Looking back at my reviews I have also read “The Wide-Awake Princess” and felt the same way about that book. I might have enjoyed Baker’s writing style when I was five or six years old, but now I just find it predictable, bland and boring. These are definitely not stories that carry over well to adults.

My Summary (3/5): Overall this is a cute and very simple princess story that is better suited for younger readers than adults. Everything is very simple, very predictable, and pretty darn boring. I didn’t enjoy the characters or the setting, but technically there’s nothing wrong with the story. There just wasn’t much here that appealed to me despite my love of fairy tale retellings. I have come to the solid conclusion that I just don’t enjoy ED Baker’s writing style and will be looking elsewhere for more fairy retellings to read.