{"id":33831,"date":"2017-12-14T22:59:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T02:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=33831"},"modified":"2017-12-14T22:59:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T02:59:40","slug":"review-of-the-princess-in-black-and-the-mysterious-playdate-by-shannon-hale-and-dean-hale-illustrated-by-leuyen-pham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=33831","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate, by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illustrated by LeUyen Pham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mysterious_playdate_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mysterious_playdate_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34021\" \/><\/a><em>The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale<br \/>\nillustrated by LeUyen Pham<\/p>\n<p>Candlewick Press, 2017.  90 pages.<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>A fifth book about the Princess in Black!  I like the way she\u2019s maintaining her secret identity, but now her friends are emulating the Princess in Black with their own attempts to fight monsters.<\/p>\n<p>At the start, the Princess in Black and the Goat Avenger drive a monster back into Monster Land.  But then the Princess in Black has mysterious plans and must leave.  What she doesn\u2019t tell the Goat Avenger is that she has a playdate with Princess Sneezewort.<\/p>\n<p>But a very sneaky monster follows her to Princess Sneezewort\u2019s kingdom!  It interrupts the playdate.  Princess Sneezewort, inspired by the Princess in Black, becomes the Princess in Blankets.  (After all, blankets make a good disguise.)  As it happens, she discovers exactly the ninja skills needed against a super-sneaky monster.<\/p>\n<p>I like the way these books inspire everyone to become a hero, battle monsters \u2013 and then celebrate together!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.squeetus.com\/\">squeetus.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlewick.com\/\">candlewick.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0763688266\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/mysterious_playdate.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/mysterious_playdate.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale illustrated by LeUyen Pham Candlewick Press, 2017. 90 pages. Starred Review A fifth book about the Princess in Black! I like the way she\u2019s maintaining her secret identity, but now her friends are emulating the Princess in Black with their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,9,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginning-chapter-books","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-fantasy","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}