She has said that the fictional nation of Danland is "in the same world as Bayern but on a different continent and in a different time". Hale drew from the similar concepts of speaking through wind, fire, and water found in her Books of Bayern series to develop this idea of communicating through stone. Her first draft didn't include the concept of "quarry-speech" and was added in the second. Hale first came up with the idea for Princess Academy while writing her first novel, The Goose Girl her husband, Dean Hale, was reading a fiction book about a tutor to a princess, which prompted Hale to develop the idea of a group of "princesses in training". It is the first in the Princess Academy series, followed by Princess Academy: Palace of Stone and Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters. The book was named a 2006 Newbery Honor winner as well as a New York Times Bestseller. It tells the story of fourteen-year-old Miri who attends a princess academy that will determine who wins the hand of the prince. Princess Academy is a fantasy novel exploring themes of families, relationships, and education by Shannon Hale published on June 16, 2005, by Bloomsbury.
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