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4.52 AVERAGE
4.52 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
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This is a beautiful book.
Let’s be real, you know what is going to happen just by looking at the title and the cover art. If the subject matter is going to offend your delicate sensibilities, go find something else to read. Don’t get mad because this book is what it is.
I loved this book. The story is simple, but adorable. I enjoyed the rhyming used. I also liked the diversity in the illustrations. Princesses are shown with a variety of skin colors. Yes, they are all conventionally thin and have similar features, but it’s a step in the right direction.
The illustrations were very beautiful and I loved the story itself. Fantastic read.
That whole dragon scene was just
This is a beautiful book.
Let’s be real, you know what is going to happen just by looking at the title and the cover art. If the subject matter is going to offend your delicate sensibilities, go find something else to read. Don’t get mad because this book is what it is.
I loved this book. The story is simple, but adorable. I enjoyed the rhyming used. I also liked the diversity in the illustrations. Princesses are shown with a variety of skin colors. Yes, they are all conventionally thin and have similar features, but it’s a step in the right direction.
The illustrations were very beautiful and I loved the story itself. Fantastic read.
That whole dragon scene was just
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
4.5 stars.
This picture book is absurdly cute. The vibrant illustrations and rhyming storytelling work together so well, and it shapes a really lovely love story. This is a new fairy tale that could easily be a staple on any children's bookshelf.
Definitely recommended!
This picture book is absurdly cute. The vibrant illustrations and rhyming storytelling work together so well, and it shapes a really lovely love story. This is a new fairy tale that could easily be a staple on any children's bookshelf.
Definitely recommended!
Beautiful art but the rhyming meter is a little off a few times. Still a great book for kids.
This book has a 4.39 average rating because it's about a gay couple, not because it's a good book. The rhyming text is so basic, contrived, and horrible that it was a painful flashback to the kind of stuff I wrote in grade school, and even though the pictures are far better, the faces look really weird. Worse, the plot itself is an insta-love fairy tale that would garner a low average rating if it were about a heterosexual couple.
The story opens with a prince feeling incredibly uncomfortable as women swoon around him. His parents are trying to marry him off, but he turns away all of the princesses who are interested in him, saying that he is looking for something "special." Either he doesn't understand his own orientation or he doesn't know how to express it, because he keeps using the word "special," and he uses it IN FRONT OF ONE OF THESE WOMEN. Since no one else appears to have mentioned this in their review, I'm beginning to wonder if I misinterpreted the illustration and text, but from what I perceived, the prince tells his parents in front of a young woman that she isn't "special." There are SO MANY better ways for him to express his unease! This main character clearly has no qualms about rejecting women as not-special-individuals, rather than just rejecting male-female courtship bonding, and I don't know why all of the other reviewers are okay with this.
Then a dragon shows up! The prince goes to fight, and he meets a knight who helps defeat the dragon and save him! Now the prince has found someone "special," and he admires how "handsome" the knight is as soon as the other man takes off his helmet. (I wasn't seeing it, but like I said, this illustrator draws faces in a weird way.) The prince and the knight are automatically IN LOVE, even though they have only just met each other, and when they return to the kingdom, the prince's parents are glad that he has finally found someone "special," even though, since they were trying to marry him off in the first place, one would assume that they cared about continuing their bloodline. Apparently not!
Everything about this book is weird in one way or another. Also, I wonder how people would feel if I started using the word "special" in an affected voice as a substitute for the word "gay." I won't try it, since people would probably run after me with pitchforks, but just think about it! It's a funny concept, and this author really does use the word "special" as a substitute for "gay." It must make the book incredibly confusing to a small child, because it explains nothing about the dynamics of same-sex attraction, beyond the rejection of opposite-sex suitors. After all, it's not like the prince had a chance to learn what was actually special about the knight before the book ended. Would he have fallen equally head-over-heels in love with any other cardboard-cutout of a man who happened to show up? I'm thinking yes. This book is incredibly shallow and mediocre, and I can't stand it.
The story opens with a prince feeling incredibly uncomfortable as women swoon around him. His parents are trying to marry him off, but he turns away all of the princesses who are interested in him, saying that he is looking for something "special." Either he doesn't understand his own orientation or he doesn't know how to express it, because he keeps using the word "special," and he uses it IN FRONT OF ONE OF THESE WOMEN. Since no one else appears to have mentioned this in their review, I'm beginning to wonder if I misinterpreted the illustration and text, but from what I perceived, the prince tells his parents in front of a young woman that she isn't "special." There are SO MANY better ways for him to express his unease! This main character clearly has no qualms about rejecting women as not-special-individuals, rather than just rejecting male-female courtship bonding, and I don't know why all of the other reviewers are okay with this.
Then a dragon shows up! The prince goes to fight, and he meets a knight who helps defeat the dragon and save him! Now the prince has found someone "special," and he admires how "handsome" the knight is as soon as the other man takes off his helmet. (I wasn't seeing it, but like I said, this illustrator draws faces in a weird way.) The prince and the knight are automatically IN LOVE, even though they have only just met each other, and when they return to the kingdom, the prince's parents are glad that he has finally found someone "special," even though, since they were trying to marry him off in the first place, one would assume that they cared about continuing their bloodline. Apparently not!
Everything about this book is weird in one way or another. Also, I wonder how people would feel if I started using the word "special" in an affected voice as a substitute for the word "gay." I won't try it, since people would probably run after me with pitchforks, but just think about it! It's a funny concept, and this author really does use the word "special" as a substitute for "gay." It must make the book incredibly confusing to a small child, because it explains nothing about the dynamics of same-sex attraction, beyond the rejection of opposite-sex suitors. After all, it's not like the prince had a chance to learn what was actually special about the knight before the book ended. Would he have fallen equally head-over-heels in love with any other cardboard-cutout of a man who happened to show up? I'm thinking yes. This book is incredibly shallow and mediocre, and I can't stand it.
This is the cutest story, and I like that it rhymes a little bit. It’s just a sweet story. I love the illustrations as well. I like the way the LGBTQ
So excited that I got to read this! A prince's parents want their son to be happy, so they seek to find him a bride, but the Prince is looking for something else. Will he find love in a knight?
This book is so cute! I love the art and the message. 5 star read and I can't wait to see more from this author!
This book is so cute! I love the art and the message. 5 star read and I can't wait to see more from this author!