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The Princess and Curdie

by George MacDonald

Curdie is sent on a secret mission to the king's city, where nothing is as honest as it looks.

📖 35 chapters, complete ⏱ about 10 minutes a night 📅 a chapter a night finishes it in about 5 weeks
Read it free in theApp StoreHow reading missions work

In ChoreUnlock

This book can earn their screen time.

Assign The Princess and Curdie as a mission and pick the schedule: every day, school nights, weekends, or one chapter a week. The app serves the next chapter each time and keeps the bookmark.

📚 They read it in the app

The full text, 35 chapters, on their own device. No separate book to buy or lose.

🎤 They prove it out loud

At the end of a chapter the app highlights a short passage and your child reads it aloud. Mak listens and checks it against the page.

⚡ The screen time is earned

Pass, and the XP lands. Screen time comes from the book, not the feed.

What's inside

The complete book, split into 35 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 35 chapters
Chapter 1The Mountain
Chapter 2The White Pigeon
Chapter 3The Mistress of the Silver Moon
Chapter 4Curdie's Father and Mother
Chapter 5The Miners
Chapter 6The Emerald
Chapter 7What Is in a Name?
Chapter 8Curdie's Mission
Chapter 9Hands
Chapter 10The Heath
Chapter 11Lina
Chapter 12More Creatures
Chapter 13The Baker's Wife
Chapter 14The Dogs of Gwyntystorm
Chapter 15Derba and Barbara
Chapter 16The Mattock
Chapter 17The Wine Cellar
Chapter 18The King's Kitchen
Chapter 19The King's Chamber
Chapter 20Counterplotting
Chapter 21The Loaf
Chapter 22The Lord Chamberlain
Chapter 23Dr Kelman
Chapter 24The Prophecy
Chapter 25The Avengers
Chapter 26The Vengeance
Chapter 27More Vengeance
Chapter 28The Preacher
Chapter 29Barbara
Chapter 30Peter
Chapter 31The Sacrifice
Chapter 32The King's Army
Chapter 33The Battle
Chapter 34Judgement
Chapter 35The End

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Tonight, The Princess and Curdie can be the mission.

Assign it in about a minute. The first read-aloud usually earns a grin.

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