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mehsi's review against another edition
5.0
I just love it when princesses get out of their standard stuff and turn out to be kick-ass heroines.
Like for instance, Viola in this book. She is a princess, but she loves karate, she love skateboarding, she loves jumping in the moat to just swim when it is warm. All qualities that a princess shouldn't have (according to her parents and various other people). But those qualities are what made me want to read the book. A skateboarding, karate-chopping, moat-jumping princess? Yes, please!
Viola was a great girl, and I loved that she wasn't forced to attend that camp for princesses, instead she sought to improve herself. In the hopes that she will become a princess that people will love. I was worried that she might be forced, but it seems we have a girl who will do anything to become better!
I really liked reading about her training and about what happened there. I won't spoil anything, but lets just say I really loved it. Turns out the skills of skateboarding, water-jumping and karate-chopping are truly necessary skills that every princess should have.
The illustrations are pretty fun, it feels like we are reading a comic book at times, instead of a picture book. There are sound effects when action happens and the art is put into panels during those times. The other times it just reads as a picture book, and a great one at that. The art is really pretty and it totally fits with this skateboarding princess.
All in all, I would really recommend this picture book to everyone. Young and old will love it.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
Like for instance, Viola in this book. She is a princess, but she loves karate, she love skateboarding, she loves jumping in the moat to just swim when it is warm. All qualities that a princess shouldn't have (according to her parents and various other people). But those qualities are what made me want to read the book. A skateboarding, karate-chopping, moat-jumping princess? Yes, please!
Viola was a great girl, and I loved that she wasn't forced to attend that camp for princesses, instead she sought to improve herself. In the hopes that she will become a princess that people will love. I was worried that she might be forced, but it seems we have a girl who will do anything to become better!
I really liked reading about her training and about what happened there. I won't spoil anything, but lets just say I really loved it. Turns out the skills of skateboarding, water-jumping and karate-chopping are truly necessary skills that every princess should have.
The illustrations are pretty fun, it feels like we are reading a comic book at times, instead of a picture book. There are sound effects when action happens and the art is put into panels during those times. The other times it just reads as a picture book, and a great one at that. The art is really pretty and it totally fits with this skateboarding princess.
All in all, I would really recommend this picture book to everyone. Young and old will love it.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
jmitschke's review against another edition
3.0
Would pair well with Not All Princesses Dress in Pink and Interstellar Cinderella.
kristenremenar's review against another edition
3.0
A nice twist on the typical princess stereotypes.
pacifickle's review against another edition
4.0
I love books about atypical princesses and buying them for the girls who are into pink sparkly stuff to show them that you can be any kind of princess you want! Thanks for making books like this :)
ericadeb's review against another edition
2.0
This book has such a cool cover and so much potential, but she just can't be proper and ends up saving them all from a dragon at the end? I wanted more.
pwbalto's review against another edition
4.0
Joe Berger has I am pretty sure attained my list of Can Do No Wrong illustrators. Oddly, Tammi Sauer has been paired up with a lot of the people on that list! Some editor somewhere LOVES Tammi Sauer. Quite RIGHTLY.
bluenicorn's review against another edition
3.0
As far as non-princess-y-princess books go, I thought this was a decent one. Karate chop!
rhodesee's review against another edition
4.0
Great comic book style illustrations accompany a cute story about a princess who isn't like the other princesses.
jamicuns01's review against another edition
4.0
This was a fun prim and proper princess be damned book for my daughter. It is one of her favorites. We love reading this story together.