The release date for the English version of 'The Goose Girl' by
Shannon Hale is May 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
She was born without the ability to taste, with her eyes closed and a phrase stuck to her mouth.
During her early years, Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, learned the language of the birds—particularly the swans—by listening to her aunt's tales. And when she was older, she saw a colt be born and heard his name, Falada, as the first syllable out of his mouth.
Inspired by the Grimm fairy tale of the princess who turned into a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale has created a remarkable, unique, and enchanted story about a girl who has to discover her own unique abilities before she can take charge of the people she has adopted.