nightmare before christmas long live the pumpkin queen

There's not a thing I'd change about this story. And discovering who she really, truly is. And as the story progresses, you can start to see where her thoughts change from doubt, to 'maybe I actually can do this?', to 'I am the Pumpkin Queen!' It's a beautiful story of growing and finding her own inner self worth. At the end of The Nightmare Before Christmas, it seemed as though she had grown as a character and found an inner strength she didn't know she had when she tried to stop Jack from entering the Human World to take over Christmas and then attempting a solo rescue of Sandy Claws from Oogie Boogie. It's a lot of pressure for someone so used to being locked up. But everyone wants her to change her hair, her dress, her posture, her shoes, even telling her to redecorate the house she used to only dream of living in. Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. She has to get comfortable in her new life. Of course she's gonna be unsure of herself and meek to begin with. She's questioning herself and her abilities to be a Queen. In Pumkin Queen, she's free but now she's cast into the limelight, with all eyes on her as the first Pumkin Queen of Halloween Town. She's been locked away her whole life, out of the limelight and kept under Finklestein's watchful gaze. So a common complaint with the book is that Sally is made to seem feeble and meek in the first few chapters. But when Sally and Zero accidentally uncover a long-hidden doorway to an ancient realm called Dream Town in the forest Hinterlands, she'll unknowingly set into motion a chain of sinister events that put her future as Pumpkin Queen, and the future of Halloween Town itself, into jeopardy.Ĭan Sally discover what it means to be true to herself and save the town she's learned to call home, or will her future turn into her worst. or are they? Sally Skellington is the official, newly-minted Pumpkin Queen after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack, who Sally adores with every inch of her fabric seams-if only she could say the same for her new role as Queen of Halloween Town.Ĭast into the spotlight and tasked with all sorts of queenly duties, Sally can't help but wonder if all she's done is trade her captivity under Dr. Hear Sally's story in this young adult sequel to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas written by New York Times bestselling Shea Ernshaw.

Nightmare before christmas long live the pumpkin queen