Princess Grace
by Mary Hoffman (Author) Ying-Hwa Hu (Illustrator)
This year two girls will be selected as princesses in the town parade, and Grace can't wait to be one of them. It's the perfect opportunity to dress up -- but how, exactly, should a princess costume look? Grace asks her teacher for help, and soon the whole class is learning that there's more to princesses than pink dresses and frills.
From Kenya to China and from warriors to spies, princesses are a multicultural and multitalented bunch, and there are just as many kinds of happily ever afters -- both for the royals and for Grace's community and its princess parade.
Mary Hoffman's picture books featuring this intrepid heroine have earned major critical acclaim; amongst other awards, Amazing Grace was a iReading Rainbow selection and a Booklist Editors? Choice. Grace's latest adventure is sure to delight her established fans, and win the hearts of many more!
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Kirkus Review - Children
The current illustrators wisely maintain the characters' facial features and personalities from the original works, without compromising their own, unique style. Just right. (Picture book. 5-10)
Horn Book Magazine
Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu's paintings depict Grace and her friends and family with vibrant energy, showing her in a tiara and pink dress on the front jacket and looking even more royal in her African dress on the back.
Booklist
Studded with questions worth discussing, the story rolls along smoothly, illustrated with bright paintings that picture events and Grace’s thoughts. Information about Cinderella variants, historical princesses, and Kente cloth appended.
School Library Journal
K-Gr 2 A fresh story for fans of all things princess, by the author of "Amazing Grace" (Dial, 1991). Two girls from Grace's class will be chosen to appear in the town parade as princesses. While researching the fairy-tale frills of royal attire, Grace realizes that she doesn't know what a princess does besides look pretty and wear beautiful clothing. She asks her teacher and discovers fascinating, true, long-ago warrior princesses like Amina, who lived in Zaria (now Nigeria), and Pin-Yang of China. She and her classmates convince their teacher to reconsider the school's float, which ultimately allows all of the children to represent different types of princes and princesses. Hoffman's crisp storytelling encourages further reading of the tales Grace encounters, and the author again uses the lightest touch to provide a lesson. The paintings combine flowing realism with traces of anime during the girl's reading. The multiethnic cast and variety of composition make every page worth extended viewing." Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA"
Copyright 2008 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
JUV048000 - Juvenile Fiction | Clothing & Dress
JUV034000 - Juvenile Fiction | Royalty (kings queens princes princesses knights etc.)
Schools
Princesses
Parade floats
