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Sunday Woodcutter, like her six sisters, was named for a day of the week. \u00a0I assume it was the day of the week on which they were born, though I cannot honest recall at the moment. \u00a0I do remember, though, that her sisters all seemed to be the embodiment of the old nursery rhyme \u201cMonday\u2019s Child<\/a>,\u201d which predicts children\u2019s characteristics based on their days of birth:<\/p>\n Monday\u2019s child is fair of face,<\/em> The number seven always seems to hold some magical and mystical powers in fantasy stories, and this story is no exception. \u00a0Being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter has set Sunday up to be especially magical. \u00a0She loves writing, but is hesitant to do so because what she writes often comes true.\u00a0 After meeting a talking frog, and telling him about her stories, Sunday finds that she finally has a friend to confide in. \u00a0He disappears, of course, when Sunday bestows a kiss on the his little froggy head \u2014 turning back into Prince Rumbold, whom her family despises. \u00a0Prince Rumbold is certain he can make Sunday fall in love with him, though, if only he can get a chance to talk to her and explain\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday Woodcutter, like her six sisters, was named for a day of the week. \u00a0I assume it was the day of the week on which they were born, though I cannot honest recall at the moment. \u00a0I do remember, though, that her sisters all seemed to be the embodiment of the old nursery rhyme \u201cMonday\u2019s … Continue reading Enchanted by Alethea Kontis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Tuesday\u2019s child is full of grace,<\/em>
\n Wednesday\u2019s child is full of woe,<\/em>
\n Thursday\u2019s child has far to go,<\/em>
\n Friday\u2019s child is loving and giving,<\/em>
\n Saturday\u2019s child works hard for a living,<\/em>
\n But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day<\/em>
\n Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.<\/em><\/p>\n