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The Paper Bag Princess
by Robert Munsch
A girl-empowering gem found in an ocean of books about frilly princess or adventurous boys. Not that there is anything wrong with those, per se, but when it comes to they point that those stereotypes become the norm for gender identity, then we really need to rethink our children's stories.
This picture book is quite short and straight forward. It is about a princess who was going to marry a prince, and once the prince is kidnapped by a dragon, she goes off to rescue him and defeat the dragon herself. The premise is great, the princess's way of defeating the dragon, a little cruel (and cunning - that is one Slytherin princess, not a Gryffindor), but I think we can give it some discount, since she doesn't actually commit any violent acts.
The prince is rescued, but not too happy about it, since the princess, in rescuing him and failing to conform to society's expectations of what a princess should be like or look like, has diminished his own role and threaten the very foundations of that society - she is no longer a proper princess.
The princess, needless to say, could not care less what the prince thinks of her, and I can only assume she will go on to live adventures and meet more interesting people along the way.
I say, give little girls this book to read. Not instead of other princess books, but in addition to it. So they can see that there are many different kinds of princesses in the world.
This picture book is quite short and straight forward. It is about a princess who was going to marry a prince, and once the prince is kidnapped by a dragon, she goes off to rescue him and defeat the dragon herself. The premise is great, the princess's way of defeating the dragon, a little cruel (and cunning - that is one Slytherin princess, not a Gryffindor), but I think we can give it some discount, since she doesn't actually commit any violent acts.
The prince is rescued, but not too happy about it, since the princess, in rescuing him and failing to conform to society's expectations of what a princess should be like or look like, has diminished his own role and threaten the very foundations of that society - she is no longer a proper princess.
The princess, needless to say, could not care less what the prince thinks of her, and I can only assume she will go on to live adventures and meet more interesting people along the way.
I say, give little girls this book to read. Not instead of other princess books, but in addition to it. So they can see that there are many different kinds of princesses in the world.