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Together, they decide quest for the fairy who cursed/blessed Basil to see if anything can be done about her condition or not and, from there, they are given an even more perilous quest which will have ramifications for the two of them and the entire kingdom.

Given that the paid-off dragon is really more of a babysitter than a captor, Basil doesn’t have too much trouble rescuing herself, and in the woods outside the dragon’s castle she meets Hudson, a shepherd boy who is even more ordinary still, but who also dreams of someday being special. And so the queen takes drastic action: She hires a dragon to kidnap Basil, believing this will lead to knights seeking to slay the dragon to rescue her and thus earn the right to marry her, before they have a chance to realize she’s so ordinary. Her relatively plain looks and lack of a single, defining characteristic make her an outsider among the members of her family, and this becomes particularly vexing to her mother, who worries Basil will never be able to secure a suitor. That was Princess Basil, who is coincidentally named for an herb while her sisters are all named for flowers Princess Rose, Princess Lavender, Princess Lily and so on. Each of the first six was given a superlative quality or talent by their fairy-beauty, dance, singing, cooking, wisdom and humor-while the seventh princess was blessed (or was she cursed?) by the grumpy, cigar-chomping fairy Melvina to be “ordinary.”

The king and queen of Florim have seven daughters.

I can’t promise that you will live happily after if you read Anderson’s Extraordinary, but you will likely be quite happy during the time you are reading it, given how charming a fairy tale riff it is.Īnderson’s story is built on the fairy tale conceit of fairies blessing special children at birth, as in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty stories and Gail Carson Devine’s Ella Enchanted. That comic became an animation pitch, and then became a webcomic and now it is a graphic novel. For an assignment at the Savannah College of Art and Design, she created a four-page comic about an ordinary princess in a family of extraordinary, fairy-blessed princesses. Once upon a time, in the faraway land of Georgia, there was a young artist named Cassie Anderson.

Extraordinary: A Story of An Ordinary Princess