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Customer Reviews

A great classis story

2008-03-27
This book is so cute! A beautiful, silly classic story that should be on every kid's bookshelf.

Cute Miniature Book

2008-03-05
I bought the 3.5 x 3.2 sized edition. It's a good quality color book and very cute. The cover is not hardcover but a pretty sturdy softcover. Perfect size for purses, diaper bags, and pockets. Also might interest a collector of miniature books. The story is about a princess who rescues a prince from a dragon. It's a nice break from the majority of helpless princess books that most little girls want and read.

Who Doesn't Like Elizabeth??

2008-03-03
Really, who could complain about this book? My only problem is that it isn't longer! I was happy to buy this book for my daughter, as a reminder that looking good and being good aren't at all the same thing. We have enough books to tell our daughters to sit back and wait for a prince to come and rescue them. I have nothing against princes in general, but sometimes, even princes are bums.

Elizabeth knows this and teaches our daughters about their own power. Hurrah, Elizabeth - you are a princess of the highest order, singed hair and all!

Good for Little and Big Princesses Alike

2008-03-01
This is one of my "Top Ten" children's books. It was given to my daughter by her aunt when she was born, and it has become a favorite of mine to read to her at night (my daughter that is - I don't read to her aunt). A great story for instilling the idea in a young girl that fairytales don't always end up the way you may think they will. Interestingly enough, it was also the perfect book for me to send to my 30 year old cousin, who had just broken up with her "bum" of a fiance! Plenty of fish in that big, blue sea.
Peace.

Buy this for your daughter! Or son!

2008-01-24
Just a nice lesson in not judging a book by it's cover. Great drawings too.

Simply one of the best children's books ever written

2008-07-23
Having just returned from my local bookstore and being bombarded with all thinks pink and frilly in the children's section, I feel compelled to encourage you to buy this book for every girl and boy you know. This is a TRUE princess story, with a a princess who is strong, smart, independent, and self-assured, and who does not let anyone - a prince, society, ANYONE - define her. That's what we should be teaching all of our children! We need more books like this, and we need to read them to often.

Empowering Book for Girls

2008-05-26
i first came across this book in college. now, i give it to anyone with a young daughter. a must-have!

So fun! But ends abruptly

2008-05-19
Wonderful and ahead of its time.

Just wish they'd add a page or two at the end. So, she doesn't marry the Prince in the end. Good choice. But what DOES she do? Good question for further imagining with young readers.

she doesn't end up with the prince

2008-04-30
one of the reasons this story is great is because its one of the few books where the story doesn't end with the girl getting a guy. princesses and romance go hand in hand, even when the princess is a tough, adventure-seeking, swash-buckling tomboy, for the most part they end up with a guy. in fact stories with female protagonists that don't end up with a guy could probably be counted on one hand, its a huge part of our cultural perception of women and their happiness. in this one she flips the guy off and walks happily into the sunset by herself. especially at a time where stories like this are competing with barbie and bratz for our young girls, and i guess the boys who think the girls are like that, this is one of the more popular stories where the princess is smart and gutsy and gets things done to her satisfaction. its not even close to the only story like this, but as i say, one of the more popular. it teaches kids that girls aren't delicate pieces of glass and can yell out 'you are a bum!', which is funny and has none of the pretentious ideas about making little girls into little women instead of letting them be little girls. also, it has been commented that the story isn't the most literately complex, to those people i say you obviously haven't heard it live. it doesn't need to be a novel to get the message across. a lot of people i know and i see drill into their kids the need to always be challenging themselves, which is good, but they also don't let them do non-challenging things for fun, which is semi robotic. i mean they're just kids, who cares if its a line a page and that line isn't the most mind blowing sentence in the english language. if it fun, its ok. loosen up a bit.

Do it yourself Heroine!

2008-04-06
This is a princess after my own heart! I love all of Robert Munch's books and this is my very favorite. The illustrations are terrific and the princess is a girl who doesn't need to wait around to be rescued, she shows how even a princess can take care of herself.