The Truly Brave Princesses (Egalité)
by Dolores Brown (Author) Sonja Wimmer (Illustrator)
Perhaps on more than one occasion you've seen a princess. Maybe you didn't realize she was actually a princess because at that moment she was not wearing her crown and appeared to be a firefighter or a supermarket cashier and didn't fit the traditional conception of a princess. This book reminds readers that each and every one of us could be a princess.
The Truly Brave Princesses will help you realize that, if you watch closely, princesses are all around you, and they are brave, caring and determined. The book feels modern in its references and social cornerstones while retaining a classic, elegant style thanks to Wimmer's gorgeous portraits of the princesses in their crowns, each facing a page of that princess in action.
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Kirkus Reviews
If every girl is a little princess, this book shows that to keep that crown requires only finding things to love in life and pursuing them.
Booklist
If any princesses are truly worthy of a crown, they are the author and illustrator of this affirming book.
Publishers Weekly
Real princesses are all around us, Brown suggests, they just don't always wear their crowns: "Maybe she's a neighbor, maybe a schoolmate, maybe the cashier at your supermarket." These royal subjects run the gamut of ages, backgrounds, and abilities, and they embrace eclectic interests and professions: Princess Neyla, a 39-year-old architect, loves "scuba diving and underwater photography," while 11-year-old Princess Rita loves "wearing a clown nose and surprising people on the street." Princess Beatrix is a single mother and hairdresser in fairy wings, and 23-year-old Princess Caroline "has Down Syndrome. She works in an office, and in her spare time she likes to play volleyball." Wimmer's illustrations offer the princesses a balletic grace, and their distinctive clothing styles and environments—from the subway to, in the case of pink-haired astronaut Princess Zoe, outer space—offer eye-catching details on every page. If at times unsubtle in its delivery, Brown's inclusive message is nevertheless full-hearted and genuine. Also available in a Spanish-language edition. Ages 4-8.
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JUV014000 - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
JUV034000 - Juvenile Fiction | Royalty (kings queens princes princesses knights etc.)
Princesses
