Calling on Dragons The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book Three [Paperback]

Those wicked wizards are back--and they've become very smart. (Sort of.) They intend to take over the Enchanted Forest once and for all . . . unless Cimorene finds a way to stop them. And some people think being queen iseasy.

A Princess's work is never done—not even when she becomes a queen! Princess Cimorene is now Queen Cimorene...and she's faced with her first queenly crisis—the Enchanted Forest is threatened with complete destruction! This new edition includes an introduction by the author and fantastic new packaging.

Zany . . . humorous . . . madcap. Combining suspense, playfulness, and witty repartee, the story is just good fun. --Booklist

A treat from start to finish. --VOYA

A captivating and convincing fantasy that sets the stage (and whets the appetite) for future adventures. --School Library Journal

Laugh-aloud funny. --Kirkus Reviews

Patricia C. Wredehas written many novels, including all four books in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles as well asSorcery & Cecilia,The Grand Tour,andThe Mislaid Magician, co-written with Caroline Stevermer. Ms. Wrede lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 

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In Which a Great Many Cats Express Opinions
 
Deep in the enchanted forest, in a neat gray house with a wide porch and a red roof, lived the witch Morwen and her nine cats. The cats were named Murgatroyd, Fiddlesticks, Miss Eliza Tudor, Scorn, Jasmine, Trouble, Jasper Darlington Higgins IV, Chaos, and Aunt Ophelia, and not one of them looked anything like a witch’s cat. They were tabby, gray, white, tortoiseshell, ginger, seal brown, and every other cat color in the world except a proper and witchy black.
 
Morwen didn’t look like a witch any more than her cats looked as if they should belong to one. For one thing, she was much tols*