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Principesse Dimenticate O Sconosciute... (2000)

by Rébecca Dautremer(Favorite Author)

4.27 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8845114007 (ISBN13: 9788845114007)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

review 1: This is like a field guide to different princesses: their personalities, their interests, strengths, weaknesses. There's lots to look over in sidebars, diagrams, and smaller pictures. It reminds me of a book I used to love when I was little about the world of dwarfs - you feel you're stepping into an imaginary world that's fully realized. The illustrations are not the usual frilly type of thing you'd expect of a princess book - how refreshing!It feels like a picture book, but is text-heavy like a chapter book. I was worried it wouldn't find its reader, but it has become a hit with third grade girls.
review 2: This book was an absolute dream on a day like today. It was rainy and windy and awful and terrible. No matter where you stood in the school library, you j... moreust heard the pounding of weather against the building. My 45 minute commute by car was no better. When I got home and threw myself on the couch (in a very Princess Miss Hap like manner if I do say so myself), all I wanted to do was sink my teeth into a hot bowl of chili and flip through something that took me far, far away from the wet shoddiness of here.The illustrations in this middle-grade focused picture book are absolutely lush. Even holding the oversized book has a regal feel to it. Each princess is cleverly described over a two-page spread, with the little illustrations, charts and notations scattered throughout matching the tongue-in-cheek tone. I love that there is no twist, no building to a denouement, that it simply is what it says it is - a glimpse into the secret lives of princesses.But perhaps my favorite part of the book is the test to determine what kind of princess you are. Or rather, the answer for those who have selected mostly Zs:You are a false princess.This test is reserved for true princesses. Once you have finished reading these lines, you will transform into an old polecat, a kangaroo rat, or a used doormat. Your choice. We warned you.I'm something of a late bloomer when it comes to fairy tales. I didn't really care for them as a child, but over the past few years, I've really come to love with with an almost reckless abandon. The same is true for picture books, particularly as a tool for working with middle grade students. But as I flipped through the book a second and third time over it's perfect companion, I had to wonder if this had the most "kid appeal" out of all of the things I'd been reading or whether it was a more selfish enjoyment. I feel as if I could determine exactly which of my upper elementary school readers would like it best and exactly which ones would let the humor fly over their heads. It is playful in a particular way that I think some children, especially those reading below grade level for comprehension reasons rather than vocabulary, might find babyish if they don't understand the layered meanings.It still tops the charts of my own personal reads for the year. Recommended for 20somethings who wish they were actually ladies of leisure. less

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