Rating:  Summary: great book Review: My daughter loves this book - what a good message for both girls and boys! Cute illustrations, too!
Rating:  Summary: Excellent book for girls and women.. Review: I adore this book. It is about Princess Elizabeth who has to defeat a dragon when the Prince is kidnapped. Elizabeth has to rely on her own strengths, creativity and ingenuity to win the battle with the dragon. Every female I've read this book to has loved it, from my 3 year old niece to a group of 12 year olds to my university Women's Studies class. The book has a fantastic message about women's potential to break through sex-role stereotyping. The book boosted the self-esteem of the girls I was working with and led to some great discussions about the fact that they don't need to have a boyfriend to be happy, and the need to accept themselves and recognize their strengths. I think this book is empowering and uplifting and I reccommend it to anyone who is in contact with young girls. Heck, get it for yourself. You deserve it.
Rating:  Summary: Simply the best message Review: I have loved this book for the last nine years, and given countless copies of it to all the women in my life, young and old. Elizabeth outsmarts a dragon and rescues a prince, then discovers that he's not her prince after all. The last image is great, and a wonderful message for all girls everywhere.
Rating:  Summary: Not for little kids Review: I bought this book for my 3 year old for Christmas, but I'm not going to give it to her. It's definitely for an older audience. While it does send the message that girls don't have to be fairy princesses, it doesn't do it in a positive way.
Rating:  Summary: Don't miss Review: A must-read. I read this book to my class every year. You'll love the humor in the ending.
Rating:  Summary: You look like a real prince, but you are a bum. Review: A friend got me this book as a birthday gift. It helped me remember that I am an independent woman who has her own life, her own ideas and her own solutions. More importantly, this simple little story emphasized that that life, those ideas and those solutions are valid: no matter what anyone else thinks. I have since suggested it to adult friends who, for whatever reason, also needed that reminder and my young (3 and 6 years old) cousins who I'm told enjoyed the story.
Rating:  Summary: My girls love this book! Review: My girls love this book. I like it because of the strong female character. They like the princess because she is crative and smart. They both like the size of the book (2 inches square) although my older daughter age seven thought the book should be really big lke the princess's heart. They like the moral also they know they need to not judge a person by the way they look and this really reinforces that standard.
Rating:  Summary: pocket size treasure Review: Not only is the message of the story great, but the small pocket size is cute. These will make wonderful party favors for my daughters princess party.
Rating:  Summary: Thank You Robert Munsch and Michael Marchenk! Review: Not only do I heartily approve of the message this book gives I and my children so much enjoyed the way in which it was delivered!
Rating:  Summary: I loved this book!! Review: Princess Elizabeth's world gets destroyed by a dragon - her castle is smashed, her clothes are burned, and her Prince is carried off by a dragon.Does Elizabeth sit back and let the dragon win? Nope. She puts on a paperbag and heads out to rescue her man. She puts her smarts to good use and defeats the dragon. No violence. And for her troubles? Ronald yells at her!! What's a Princess to do? She tells him off an skips off into the sunset. I loved Elizabeth's resoursefulness. I loved how the test of her character showed her that Ronald wasn't the Prince for her. I loved how, instead of weeping over the loss of such an unprincely Prince, she dances off into the sunset. This book is one of my all-time favorite stories.
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