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Book Review: Enchanted and Hero by Alethea Kontis

    Monday’s child is fair of face,     Tuesday’s child is full of grace,     Wednesday’s child is full of woe,     Thursday’s child has far to go,     Friday’s child is loving and giving,     Saturday’s child works hard for a living,     But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day     Is bonny and blithe and good and gay. This rhyme opens Enchanted, the first in a series of the tales of the Woodcutter sisters. When we first meet them, Sunday, the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, is out in the Wood, writing stories in a journal. She meets an enchanted frog named Grumble, and the rest, as they say, is history. Alethea Kontis hooked me in quickly with the easy conversational tone of Sunday’s encounter with Grumble. The Princess and the Frog is a fine story,