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My Rules for Being a Pretty Princess

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Overview

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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ISBN-13:	9781492615200
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	06/02/2015
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD460L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Heath McKenzie has illustrated numerous picture books and children’s book jackets. He lives with his wife and kids in Melbourne Australia. Visit him online at heathmck.com.

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"Funny and pointed; a fast, enjoyable read for both the youngest, would-be princesses and their male counterparts." — Kirkus Reviews

"My Rules for Being a Pretty Princess" is a hilarious fable that examines some of the traditional concepts of components of pretty princesses through a special lens of humor...ideal for parents who like to see their children question stale stereotypes of conforming gender roles, and for princesses who want to have fun.
" — Midwest Book Review

"Cleverly hidden behind a stereotypical pink cover is a princess book like none other. Readers will meet a little girl who wants to be a pretty princess more than anything else in the entire world. When her wish comes true she discovers that being a princess isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A princess has to have perfect hair, perfect makeup, dance gracefully, and isn’t allowed to stuff her face—BORING! Our princess wannabe decides to write her own rules for being a princess and learns that being yourself is the best way to be a princess." — The Delphos Herald

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2015-02-03
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 manner—called "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)

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