Fairest levine6/11/2023 ![]() With physical beauty, the problems begin for Aza, including imprisonment and a run-in with a poison apple. Aza's illusing is soon revealed but not before she goes to the mirror and asks for beauty. A creature lives in the mirror, giving the queen poor advice on running the kingdom while the king is ill. Her first book for children, Ella Enchanted, was a 1998 Newbery Honor Book. Aza learns that the queen has been given beauty through a magical mirror from the Fairy Lucinda, the same one in the book Ella Enchanted. Gail Carson Levine grew up in New York City and began writing seriously in 1987. ![]() ![]() The prince also is intrigued by Aza, and much to Aza's pleasant surprise they develop a friendship. The queen threatens to harm Aza's family unless Aza illuses a voice for her at the kingdom Sings. This new queen befriends Aza and learns of Aza's gift of song and the ability to "illuse": to mimic any voice and throw it so it appears that someone else is singing. She is invited to the castle as the handmaid for the king's wedding to a mysterious young woman from another land. But, she is kind and has a gift for song, making curious guests drawn to her, including a wise gnome and a duchess. She grows up to be large and not pretty, causing her shame and low self-esteem. Left as a baby, Aza is found by a loving innkeeper and wife who raise her as their own. ![]()
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