
Ivi has little problem attempting to kill Aza. Ivi threatens Aza to do her biding, at times, causing Aza to lie in order to save her life. Queen Ivi is very vain and, under the influence of an evil adviser, becomes rather cruel in the way she handles her subjects. Aza befriends the prince, becomes a lady in waiting to the new queen, and finds a magic mirror is no one's friend. When Aza is asked to accompany a duchess to the king's wedding, she has no idea the changes in her life this will bring. She longs to be beautiful, to no longer be the subject of people's rudeness.

Aza's singing voice is amazing, but she is ugly. In 2010 she released a second picture book titled Betsy Red Hoodie, an adaptation of the fable Little Red Riding Hood.Aza was abandoned as a baby at the Featherbed Inn in the Ayorthian village of Amonta, where the inn keeper and his wife adopted her. I give the prince a real reason to kiss Sonora even though, after 100 years, she's covered with spider webs!" Keeping with this genre, Levine also wrote a picture book, Betsy Who Cried Wolf, adapted from Aesop's fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. As Levine says, "In Sleeping Beauty, the prince falls in love with the princess when he knows only three things about her: she's pretty, she's a princess, and she doesn't snore. That picture book turned into The Fairy's Mistake, and that's how the series got started." Her six short stories reinvent traditional fairy tales, looking to fill gaps in logic. She liked one, which was then called Talk Is Cheap? But she thought it should be a short novel, rather than a picture book, and she asked me to do three more.

According to Levine, "After Ella Enchanted was published, I submitted some of my old, much rejected picture books to my editor.

Levine, following the success of her adaptation of the Cinderella story into Ella Enchanted, continued telling fairy tales with a twist in what would become her Princess Tales series.
