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What Does A Princess Really Look Like?

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Our heroine decides to create a princess in art form, and tells it encouraging, inspiring things as she does so. But can she be happy with the finished result? And just what kind of princess will she design? This is a very simple moral in picture book form, fitting in with every current self-empowerment trend, telling the young audience that there is no one correct way to look, whether you're a princess or not. Much will be made, too, of the girl living with two fathers. It's a perfectly decent little volume, although needed a smoother approach – the jump to flashback, and the girl's speeches, could have been a little better.

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Princesses come in all shapes and sizes, and not all look like what is shown in fairy tales. Loewen’s wonderfully, heartwarming tale of Chloe and her two dads, shows that princesses can be whatever, and look however, they want.

Chloe marches to the beat of her own drummer, and her princess does to. Her princess is very smart, has beautiful multi-colored hair, very observant, strong, kind, and compassionate – just like Chloe. Best of all, her princess is not perfect and she loves to dance – just like Chloe.

Pokoj’s illustrations are fantastic and paint Chloe and her dads’ love perfectly.

Thank you NetGalley and Boutique of Quality Books Publishing for the opportunity to review this amazing book.

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I think this book is great - it empowers little girls and it normalizes same-sex parenting. The girl in the book has two dads, and while it's not a focus of a book, it does make it seem normal. The little girl in this book is creating a princess, but she includes important attributes: strength, intelligence, observation, etc.

When she draws the princess' dress, it is a little crooked and she's concerned. But her dads reassure her it just looks like she's dancing. The morals of this story are great for little girls - it's not about how you look, but rather what's inside and how you are as a person. Highly recommend!

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