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Children's Booklist - Princess Stories


Title: The princess and the pizza
Author: Mary Jane Auch
Summary: An out-of-work princess applies to become the bride of Prince Drupert, but first she must pass several tests, including a cooking contest.


Title: The princesses have a ball
Author: Teresa Bateman
Summary: In this rhyming update of the fairy tale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, twelve princesses wear out their shoes playing basketball.


Title: Kitty Princess and the newspaper dress
Author: Emma Carlow
Summary: As her amused Fairy Godmouse looks on, Kitty Princess rudely orders people to make her shoes, jewelry, and a dress for Prince Quince's ball, without even knowing that she is speaking to the wrong people.


Title: Princess Smartypants rules
Author: Babette Cole
Summary: Princess Smartypants discovers that it is easier to capture evildoers and rule the kingdom of Totaloonia than to control one small baby.


Title: Do princesses wear hiking boots?
Author: Carmela LaVigna Coyle
Summary: When a little girl asks her mother about princesses, she learns that they are much like herself.


Title: Princess, princess
Author: Penny Dale
Summary: A young princess and her friends sleep under the spell of a fairy she forgot to invite to her birthday party, until someone comes along to awaken them.


Title: The real, true Dulcie Campbell
Author: Cynthia DeFelice
Summary: Believing that she is a princess, Dulcie Campbell leaves home to seek her true family, but she finds by reading a book of fairy tales that being a princess is not what she thought.


Title: The very smart pea and the princess-to-be
Author: Mini Grey
Summary: The pea gives its own version of what happened in the fairy tale, The Princess and the Pea, from the time of its birth in the Palace Garden until it helps arrange a royal marriage.


Title: The princess party book : favorite happy ever after stories - and more
Author: Janet Hoggarth
Summary: Putting a spin on favorite fairy tales, this collection comes packed with party and playtime activities that can delight princesses everywhere. Activities include beauty tips from Rapunzel and make-you-own slumber party invitations from Sleeping Beauty. Full-color illustrations.


Title: Angelina at the palace
Author: Katharine Holabird
Summary: When Angelina Ballerina is recruited to help with the anniversary celebration of the the king and queen of Mouseland, she finds herself in charge of preparing the three young princesses for their performance.


Title: The paper princess
Author: Elisa Kleven
Summary: A little girl makes a picture of a princess that comes to life and is carried off by the wind.


Title: Princesses are not quitters!
Author: Kate Lum
Summary: Three bored princesses decide to become servants for a day and learn what hard work is all about.


Title: Princess Penelope
Author: Todd Mack
Summary: Penelope is certain that she is royalty because of all the similarities between her life and that of a princess.


Title: The storytelling princess
Author: Rafe Martin
Summary: Having survived a shipwreck, a princess tries to tell a prince a story whose ending he does not know and thus qualify for his hand in marriage.


Title: Good night, Princess Pruney Toes
Author: Lisa McCourt
Summary: With the help of her loyal subject, Sir Daddy, a young girl pretends to be a princess as she gets ready for bed.


Title: The magic hill
Author: A.A. Milne
Summary: Princess Daffodil's fairy godmother's wish for her is that flowers should grow wherever she goes.


Title: Willa the wonderful
Author: Susan Milord
Summary: When Willa announces her career goal to be a fairy princess her family and friends are skeptical, until the day she makes a real-life rescue.


Title: The paper bag princess
Author: Robert N. Munsch
Summary: The Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps Ronald. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabeth finds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues Ronald --- who is less than pleased at her un-princess-like appearance.


Title: Princess Chamomile's garden
Author: Hiawyn Oram
Summary: After working with the royal gardener, Princess Chamomile decides that she would really like to create a garden all her own.


Title: Frog princess
Author: Jan Ormerod
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Title: Princess Fidgety
Author: Pat Posner
Summary: Princess Bridget can't seem to keep still. Her feet want to run and skip and hop. Most of all, her feet want to play soccer! But kicking balls isn't proper behavior for a princess, so she has to keep her soccer games a secret...


Title: Princess Picky
Author: Marjorie Priceman
Summary: When Nicki refuses to eat her vegetables, she goes from being called Princess Perfect to Princess Picky, and the worried king orders his staff to create bribes fit for a finicky royal eater.


Title: I don't want to go to bed
Author: Tony Ross
Summary: A little princess, doesn't want to go to bed, but when it is time to get up she is tired.


Title: Princess Bun Bun
Author: Richard Scrimger
Summary: As Winifred, Eugene, and baby Bun Bun go up in the elevator of the Castle Apartments to visit Uncle Dave, they have adventures including an encounter with a hairy monster, a scary witch, and even a beautiful princess.


Title: Imagine you're a princess!
Author: Meg Clibbon
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Title: The starlight princess and other princess stories
Author: Annie Dalton
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Title: The Snow Princess
Author: Ruth Sanderson
Summary: Despite the warnings of her parents, Father Frost and Mother Spring, the Snow Princess falls in love with a human and risks losing her immortality.


Title: Princess Furball
Author: Charlotte Huck
Summary: A princess in a coat of a thousand furs hides her identity from a king who falls in love with her.


Title: The frog princess
Author: Laura Cecil
Summary: Forced to marry an ugly frog, the youngest son of the queen is astounded to learn that the frog is really a beautiful princess.