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Princess Readalikes: Ariel’s Curiosity
For Ariel’s princess trait, I chose curiosity – Ariel is curious to a fault when it comes to human’s and their inventions. The characters in these stories are inventors, scientists, explorers and detectives as they search for answers, just like Ariel.
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Princess Readalikes: Sleeping Beauty’s Loyalty
Sleeping Beauty was one of the hardest princesses for me to figure out just one trait that defined her as a character, but in the end, I chose loyalty. Aurora is extremely loyal to her fairy aunts who raise her far away from her castle in order to keep her…
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Princess Readalikes: Cinderella’s Hopefulness
The characters in these titles show their own strength and hopefulness, just like Cinderella. Cinderella’s stand out trait has to be her hopefulness. She has a fairly terrible childhood, as she becomes an orphan and a servant to her own stepmother and stepsisters, but through it all, continues to hope…
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Princess Readalikes: Snow White’s Compassion for Animals
Snow White’s compassion for animals is probably one of her stand out traits. If you don’t believe me, just watch the movie again and you’ll see her singing with forest animals gathered around. The characters in these titles love animals as much as Snow White does.
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Level Up: Pairing Video Games with Children’s and YA Books (Disney Infinity)
Each Thursday this summer, I’ll be posting a video game and corresponding book list. This is just a fun, personal project that was actually the brainchild of my boyfriend who thought that A) it sounded awesome and B) that there are a lot of parents who would love to have…
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Frozen Party
Yesterday was complete madness as I finished getting ready for our Frozen party last night. It ended up being a huge hit with about 45 kids showing up and at least the same number of adults. I am so thankful that we have a great group of middle school students…
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Beastly
I have to begin this post by stating that I am mildly obsessed with all things Beauty and the Beast. I absolutely love the Disney movie, so much so that my boyfriend finally got it for me on Blu-Ray. Belle is my favorite Disney princess of all time – I…