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The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

A little princess and a brave miner boy foil the goblins tunneling beneath the mountain.

📖 32 chapters, complete ⏱ about 10 minutes a night 📅 a chapter a night finishes it in about 5 weeks
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This book can earn their screen time.

Assign The Princess and the Goblin 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, 32 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 32 chapters the app serves one at a time.

See all 32 chapters
Chapter 1Why the Princess Has a Story About Her
Chapter 2The Princess Loses Herself
Chapter 3The Princess and--We Shall See Who
Chapter 4What the Nurse Thought of It
Chapter 5The Princess Lets Well Alone
Chapter 6The Little Miner
Chapter 7The Mines
Chapter 8The Goblins
Chapter 9The Hall of the Goblin Palace
Chapter 10The Princess's King-Papa
Chapter 11The Old Lady's Bedroom
Chapter 12A Short Chapter About Curdie
Chapter 13The Cobs' Creatures
Chapter 14That Night Week
Chapter 15Woven and Then Spun
Chapter 16The Ring
Chapter 17Springtime
Chapter 18Curdie's Clue
Chapter 19Goblin Counsels
Chapter 20Irene's Clue
Chapter 21The Escape
Chapter 22The Old Lady and Curdie
Chapter 23Curdie and His Mother
Chapter 24Irene Behaves Like a Princess
Chapter 25Curdie Comes to Grief
Chapter 26The Goblin-Miners
Chapter 27The Goblins in the King's House
Chapter 28Curdie's Guide
Chapter 29Masonwork
Chapter 30The King and the Kiss
Chapter 31The Subterranean Waters
Chapter 32The Last Chapter

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

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