My rules for being a pretty princess
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Rules are meant to be broken in this laugh-out-loud picture book about staying true to yourself.
One little girl gets her greatest wish of becoming a princess – only to discover that the rules of royalty are no fun. She has to have perfect hair and eat daintily and dance gracefully — boring! So, she decides to make up her own rules... A delightfully subversive picture book that teaches girls to be themselves — clumsy dancing, crazy scribbling and all.
"This ironic take on the Cinderella story is one that will delight many readers." — Reading Time.com
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Horn Book Review
I wanna be a pretty princess!" A real princess overhears a girl's wish and shows her the ropes, which include a painful hairstyle, a binding corset, and an interminable wait for a prince ("Yawn!"). The anime-style art, while a bit synthetic-looking, captures the absurdity of these rules, which the girl ultimately rewrites (e.g., she deletes the "gracefully" in "Dance gracefully"). (c) Copyright 2015. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Book Review
A little girl learns from a "real" pretty princess about rigid, downright icky, expectations for those who would be pretty princesses.A brown-haired, pink-skinned, cartoonlike moppet, dressed in striped socks, denim skirt and ski sweater, is standing on one foot daydreaming: "More than anything else in the whole wide world, I wanna be a pretty princess!" Enter a smiling lady, also brown-haired and pink-skinned, whose ice-blue ball gown is exactly matched by her long gloves and tiara. She remakes the little girl into a pretty princess by lacing her into an extremely tight dress, forbidding her to get dirty, fussing with her hair, applying makeup, forbidding her to eat at the grand tea party ("Uh-uh-uh, stuffing one's face is hardly princessly behavior"), and making her dance in a staid, boring mannercalled "graceful" by the princess. The climax arrives after the beleaguered child and the pretty princess have waited almost interminably for their respective handsome princes; being forced to interact with her prince is the final disillusionment. The humorous pictures are matched by text in pink cartoon bubbles for the girl, lavender bubbles for the princess. The final pages do an excellent job of illustrating the little one's liberation from status quo princess-dom, both in art and in the girl's words of black and scrawled red. Funny and pointed; a fast, enjoyable read for both the youngest, would-be princesses and their male counterparts. (Picture book. 3-6) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.