The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw
Author: Christopher Healy
Illustrator: Todd Harris
Book 3 in the League of Princes series
Pages: 528
Published: 2014
Age: 9+
Prince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav. You think you know those guys pretty well by now, don't you? Well, think again. Posters plastered across the thirteen kingdoms are saying that Briar Rose has been murdered—and the four Princes Charming are the prime suspects.
Now they're on the run in a desperate attempt to clear their names. Along the way, however, they discover that Briar's murder is just one part of a nefarious plot to take control of all thirteen kingdoms—a plot that will lead to the doorstep of an eerily familiar fortress for a final showdown with an eerily familiar enemy.
The hilariously epic conclusion to the League of Princes series, which the Los Angeles Times called "one of the more clever, hilariously successful incarnations of the current literary rage to rip apart and rewrite fairy tales."
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About the League of Princes Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom(2012)
- 2.The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle(2013)
- 3.The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw(2014)
Reading age: 9+ years
This series should be read in order.
There’s a lot you don’t know about Prince Charming.
Sure, we’re all aware of those guys who show up at the end of fairy tales to save the princesses, throw on a fancy suit, and get hitched in a lavish wedding. But have you ever wondered who those guys really are? Or if the few, meager facts we do hear about them are even...true?
Well, you're about to meet Prince Charming — or rather, the Prince Charmings — all four of them: Prince Liam, Prince Frederick, Prince Duncan, Prince Gustav. They may have rescued Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Snow White, respectively, but these four men are far more (or less) than the cardboard cutout heroes we’ve heard tales about and, in reality, probably a little less heroic than you might expect.
Rejected by their princesses and cast out of their kingdoms, these four men bond over their shared anonymity and band together to battle witches, goblins, trolls, bandits, and giants in order to save each of their kingdoms from a diabolical plot. And by the end, with any luck, they may finally become the real heroes they were always meant to be.
A fast-paced and hilarious fantasy quest in the grand tradition of Shrek and The Princess Bride, starring four very unlikely, but likeable, heroes.