The Princess and the Bear

by Mette Ivie Harrison

Release: May 2009
Format: Novel
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

An enchanted king (now a bear) and a wolf (who was a princess for a while) are sent back in time to stop the spread of unmagic in this second book of Harrison’s Animal Magic Universe.

Although I didn’t connect strongly with this book, I did enjoy meeting Mette, a friendly young mother who reads and writes all the time when she isn't spending time with her family. That meeting was at Orson Scott Card’s writing boot camp in Orem, Utah, in the summer of 2002.

I suspect that the title of this book is a nod to one of my favorite Card stories, also called “The Princess and the Bear,” although there is no other connection between the two stories.

Yet your kingdom needs you to return, so I held time open for you to go back and be king once more. If you so choose.

DEBUT

The Princess and the Bear (HarperTeen, May 2009).

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1 English variant

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