LA PRINCIPESSA RIBELLE

If I tell you that the title page of The Worst Princess features a cartoon drawing of a princess in full regalia, hair plaited in medieval style and snaking down twice her length, little bird perched atop her crown, whilst Princess Sue herself sits on the floor lacing up her baseball boots, obliviou Leggi tutto

Girl meets boy. Boy puts girl in dull castle and goes off on quests. Girl bored. Girl meets dragon. Girl dumps boy. Girl and dragon live happily ever after.

It's definitely not your normal fairy tale. In fact, it is purposefully quite the opposite, with the princess hating fashionable dresses and running off with the dragon instead of the prince. She did kiss the prince though and did run off with him to his house before later calling him a twit and des Leggi tutto

For all the little children who DON'T want to be princesses and ride around on dragons instead AKA me.

If you want to teach your little ones that hegemonic femininity is an inferior gender expression, that so-called feminine interests are laughable and that to be a strong woman you have to behave... like a caricature of a man...? Go for it. I almost gave it to my nephew for Christmas. I'm glad I read Leggi tutto

A fun story about a princess who gets annoyed with being expected to sit around and look pretty, who decides instead to team up with a dragon and go on adventures! Not the first picture book I've seen with this theme, but I always enjoy these twists on classic tales. The art in this was particularly Leggi tutto