A review by panda_incognito
The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Rachel Isadora, Jacob Grimm

2.0

I thought that an African retelling of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" would be really interesting, but it's just a reductionist, paint-by-numbers version of the story with African-inspired art. The author did nothing to adapt the story to a non-Western context, and the illustrations are all close-ups, without any world-building for the setting or the type of dwelling that the royal family lived in. The art style is nice, but the book doesn't work for me as a retelling at all, and the wedding at the end is extremely abrupt.