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32 pp.
| Simon |
February, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4169-3833-0$15.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Heather Maione.
Toe-tapping rhymes chart a day in the life of a princess. Though she has many costume changes, none of the outfits, rendered with a suitably frilly, cotton-candy-like frothiness, can compete with her "favorite clothes": her underwear, in which she romps (in private) at day's end. Beneath its focus on girly garments, the book has a feminist slant; this is no (stereo)typical princess.