The Goose Girl
Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, spends the first years of her life under her aunt's guidance learning to communicate with animals. As she grows up Ani develops the skills of animal speech, but is never comfortable speaking with people, so when her silver-tongued lady-in-waiting leads a mutiny during Ani's journey to be married in a foreign land, Ani is helpless and cannot persuade anyone to assist her.
Becoming a goose girl for the king, Ani eventually uses her own special, nearly magical powers to find her way to her true destiny.
ALA Teens' Top Ten (2004); Utah State Book Award (2004); Utah Speculative Fiction Award Winne (2004); Bank Street College of Education Josette Frank Award (2004); Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2010)
About the Books of Bayern Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Goose Girl(2003)
- 2.Enna Burning(2004)
- 3.River Secrets(2006)
- 4.Forest Born(2009)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
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, especially the swans. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his name, Falada.
From the Grimm’s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale weaves an incredible, original, and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she has made her own.