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Princess Readalikes: Belle’s Intelligence
Belle is my favorite princess, I mean she’s a voracious reader, so how can she not be? Besides being an avid reader, she’s also an assistant inventor (helping her dad), curious and unapologetically herself in a small town that doesn’t understand her. The characters in the following books are bright,…
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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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Picture Book Month: Friends
Although not your typical friendship book or your typical princess story. Princess Hyacinth: the Suprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated is a true story of adventure and friendship. The princess has a terirble problem – she floats and without being weighed down by gold weights, diamond pebbles and the heaviest jewels…
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Level Up: Pairing Video Games with Books (Mario Bros.)
Mario Bros. (Everyone – Everyone 10+) Mario is a video game franchise with a variety of games, most focused on Mario’s adventures saving Princess Peach with his younger brother Luigi from the evil grasps of Bowser. The books chosen for this game style include high fantasy, adventure stories for all…
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A Corner of White
There were two things that made me want to read this book – the fist was the cover, I love all the bright colors and it looked like something right up my alley. The second was the author’s last name, I’m a little bit of a Sherlock fan and with…
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World Read Aloud Day & Princess Party
Beside my regular Yoga Story Time each Wednesday, we also hosted a Princess Party for children in Kindergarten through 2nd Grade last night with lots of frilly fun and games! Yesterday was also “Spread the Word to End the Word” Day as well as World Read Aloud Day. A busy…
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Palace of Stone (Princess Academy #2)
I have to admit, I still love a good princess story! Overall, I really enjoyed Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale the follow-up story to The Princess Academy. Miri travels to Asland to attend the Queen’s College and becomes a lady of the court to her friend, Britta. But after having grow…