Utterly good-natured fantasy story in which a princess, fed up with the expectation that she'll marry the prince of a neighbouring kingdom, runs away from her responsibilities in order to be a dragon's princess instead. In the stories, this tends to end up with the princess in question being rescued by a prince, but as Cimorene's doing her best to get away from princes, it means taking on the job of aide to a magical creature. She has to keep the cave clean, sort all the dragon's treasures and library books - teaching herself magic as she does - and cook for the dragon. The last is less piles of roast meat than buckets of chocolate mousse and - Cimorene's signature dish - cherries jubilee. She enjoys herself thoroughly, until local wizards start interfering in the dragon hierarchy, wanting to replace the dragon king with a dragon more amenable to their interests. Suddenly Cimorene's predilection for doing things differently comes to be very useful indeed... It's a fun, easy read, with a sensible, friendly heroine and a wry sense of humour. Happy endings abound.