Você está falando sobre a The Farthest Away Mountain por Lynne Reid Banks . Eu amei esse livro quando eu estava na escola primária! Eu também ainda tenho seu livro The Fairy Rebel, que é uma história adorável. Ela também é autora do The Indian in the Cupboard.
Possui uma strong protagonista feminina que leu muitas histórias de fantasia, e que constantemente ouve à noite chama de uma montanha próxima.
One morning, she wakes up early having heard someone call to her in her dreams. She looks out the window and sees the Farthest-Away Mountain nod.
Antes de partir para sua aventura, uma bonequinha que ela possui ganha vida com um espirro e lhe dá alguns conselhos sobre o que ela precisará para sua jornada.
She takes out the brass statue to comfort herself with, and one of the tears she is crying lands on the little man's nose and the magic of her tears wakes him up. He finds out that she is going to the Farthest Away Mountain and tries to talk her out of the journey, but when he finds out that the Mountain called to her and nodded, he realizes that she has to go, though he doesn't explain what this means. He gives her some advice - telling her to bathe in the lithe pond, whatever that is - and also warns her about the dangers of the Mountain.
Sua jornada a leva através de um campo de espinhos que ela consegue passar descobrindo que suas lágrimas fazem com que os espinhos desapareçam. Ela derrota um dragão assaltando-a em uma cabana rindo, o que assusta o dragão. Ela conta uma história que aprendeu de um diário (eu acho) para três gárgulas que a ajudam a escalar a montanha, e cruza um campo de neve com cores quadriculadas (que a matariam de várias maneiras) chutando para fora debaixo da neve.
She begins to climb up the Mountain path and is surprised to discover a gargoyle guarding the path named Og. She speaks to him and he speaks back and while at first he is quite happy to bar her from the path, when she tells him she has always thought that gargoyles were more sad than they were cruel, he is overwhelmed and agrees to help her. He sends her on to his two brothers, Vog and Zog, who aid her on her way. It is Zog that reveals the truth, that it is the Witch that makes the snow different colors, because she fears the color white.
Ela resgata um príncipe ... mas ele se revela um tédio que ela não quer saber, e descobre que a bonequinha que ela sempre teve foi um príncipe preso dentro de uma boneca, liberta ele, e acaba com esta pequena boneca em vez disso.
All of the master's spells are now broken, and Dakin returns to find Gog and return the Ring to the royal family, now hoping to fulfill her third goal to marry a prince. She is appalled to find, however that the prince is rather unintelligent and dull, and decides not to marry him. She takes Gog back to the mountain to reunite him with his brothers and encounters Croak - now a handsome young man once more. They marry and become the Prince and Princess of the Mountain, completing her final goal.