Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Self-Reliant Princess
    The Self-Reliant Princess
    The Self-Reliant Princess
    Ebook53 pages38 minutes

    The Self-Reliant Princess

    By Joseph Wycoff and Imogen Esplin

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    With a keen eye, a quick wit, and a daring heart, this princess is trapped in nobody's tower! From dinosaurs in the depths of the Lost Valley to dragons in the heights of the Incorrigible Mountains, these tales chronicle the thrilling adventures of a brave and curious girl, the Self-Reliant Princess. Explorer of caverns!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLion''s Paw
    Release dateNov 15, 2023
    ISBN9781958943663
    The Self-Reliant Princess
    Author

    Joseph Wycoff

    Joseph Wycoff and Imogen Esplin, a father-daughter team, are originally from Chicago, but now live and work in Auckland, New Zealand. Joseph is an actor, voiceover artist, teacher, and raconteur. Imogen is an artist and sometime dog-whisperer. Together they enjoy good books, rascally dogs, role playing games, second-hand stores, musicals, Science with a capital "S," and the occasional hot chocolate.

    Related authors

    Related to The Self-Reliant Princess

    Related ebooks

    Children's Animals For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Beauty and THE BEAST

      Nov 26, 2020

      Your mum probably told you ‘looks can be deceiving’, and never was that more true than in mythology. Leaving gods, goddesses and mortals to one side, as a rule, the more beautiful the creature, the more likely it is to be planning to rip your head of

      4 min read

    • Article

      Princess Piper

      Sep 1, 2022

      Princess Piper
      5 min read

    • Article

      Mark The Spot

      Jul 10, 2023

      Mark The Spot
      6 min read

    • Article

      Drowned World

      Sep 3, 2019

      Drowned World
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Dragon Of The North

      Sep 7, 2022

      The Dragon Of The North
      5 min read

    • Article

      Forget-me-not

      Sep 2, 2024

      Forget-me-not
      4 min read

    • Article

      Kruger’s Living Legends

      Feb 11, 2022

      Kruger’s Living Legends
      10 min read

    • Article

      Christmas Gifts

      Oct 30, 2019

      Did you ever pine after the cake decorations as a child, not the cake? The pointy ballerina, caped crusader? Bowerbird Marion Frith understands the miniature world that children love to inhabit; her own hunting from around the world housed in an alph

      3 min read

    • Article

      Scene But Not Herd

      Apr 7, 2022

      Scene But Not Herd
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Girl Who Knew No Fear

      Jun 8, 2022

      The Girl Who Knew No Fear
      4 min read

    • Article

      Full-moon Adventures

      Aug 31, 2022

      Full-moon Adventures
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Literary Zoo

      Dec 9, 2021

      A Literary Zoo
      4 min read

    • Article

      Hardback To Backpack

      Dec 30, 2020

      Hardback To Backpack
      3 min read

    • Article

      Amber Eyes Full Of Beauty

      Jun 24, 2020

      Hares are captivating animals. It’s easy to see why they have featured in a wealth of folklore and mythology over the years, and we are continuously drawn to ponder the secretive life of a creature that is graceful, cryptic and even ‘mad’. Brown hare

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Witches Of Literature

      May 30, 2023

      Tor Books T. KINGFISHER challenges the idea of the “wicked witch” through the gravewitch in her subversive fairy tale Nettle & Bone. The nameless dust-wife—part witch, part gravedigger—is all too willing to help the novel’s heroine on her quest to ki

      2 min read

    • Article

      Worlds Of Ink And Paper

      Nov 22, 2022

      As a young girl, I still remember my dear mother, smile on her face, curled up with Family Circle magazine in her lap. She was engrossed in an article titled “Butternut Wisdom,” written by Gladys Taber. At my age, it didn’t mean a thing to me. But as

      6 min read

    • Article

      Christmas Gifts

      Nov 6, 2019

      Anna Chiu is not part of the “Shore Lakes High Asians”, high achievers with tiger mums and designer gear who score 99.99 in every exam. She leaves school to bus home to take care of her younger siblings and help Baba in his restaurant, while her depr

      3 min read

    • Article

      Your Guide To: Mythical Creatures

      Jul 4, 2019

      WHAT IS IT? A mystery of the sea. A mermaid is a beautiful girl that has a tail of a fish instead of legs. WHAT’S THE STORY? The legend of the mermaid came from sailors many centuries ago. It is said that while out at sea, the sailors would spot unfa

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Nightingale

      May 1, 2019

      The Nightingale
      10 min read

    • Article

      Great Read

      Jun 16, 2021

      Great Read
      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Self-Reliant Princess

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Self-Reliant Princess - Joseph Wycoff

      An Introduction to Our Princess

      This is the story of a princess who was like other princesses in many ways: she lived in a castle with a queen for a mother and a king for a father. She had many beautiful dresses, a closet full of them as a matter of fact; dresses that she had made herself – purple, blue, yellow, red, and black. She never knew what color she might be in the mood for each morning. She was generally a very decisive girl, as you will soon see, but she never could decide on a favorite color. She also had closets full of hoodies and jeans and hats, and one special closet full of shoes, for running and dancing and climbing and riding and whatnot. She did like options.

      She could sing and dance and run. She could also climb and read and throw. She was fascinated by the stars over her head and the rocks under her feet. She wanted to know how to make things, like banana bread and solar panels. She also liked mysteries, solvable and unsolvable. She was, in short, a Brave and Curious Girl.

      1

      The Princess and the Big Dig

      One day, the Self-Reliant Princess awoke with a plan. She was going to go hunting for dinosaurs. In the canyons just to the east of the kingdom, she knew that there were some rocky, sandy places that were just right for finding dinosaur bones. And so she popped out of bed, brushed her teeth and hair, packed her tools and her lunch, and off she went. She stopped in at the kingdom next door and called up to the window of her good friend, Princess Alex.

      A tiny, bespectacled face peeped from the tower window, the corners of a smile just barely visible over the window frame. A lovely pink pointy hat sat perfectly perched on her brown curls, and she waved when she saw the Self-Reliant Princess.

      I’m going hunting for fossils. Wanna come?

      The tiny face shrunk down slightly below the window frame.

      Aw, c’mon. It’ll be fun! Just a quick ride out to the desert. I really could use the help….

      Now Princess Alex was not generally as adventurous as the Self-Reliant Princess. In fact, she usually preferred the comfort of her castle to adventures abroad. But she was a thoroughly fearless friend; and when a friend needed her, she was perfectly capable of being more loyal than afraid. She gave two quick nods of her head, disappeared inside the tower, and shortly there were two princesses on their way to the local desert, the smaller riding side-saddle on a beautiful white pony, and the taller on a brown mare, chatting merrily as they rode.

      In the distance, a lovely great hole appeared; this was the Lost Canyon – which made no sense because, well, it was right here. Everybody knew that it was right here. And how do you lose a canyon? Maybe someone forgot where it was? Maybe someone lost something in it? Maybe it was discovered by Colonel Lewis Ignatius Lost? In any case, they found it easily. When they reached the bottom of the canyon, they

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1