Our Preferred Princess

Last week, my colleague gave me a CD, a collection of 3 stories written and performed by Robert Munsch. I brought it home and slid it into our car stereo. Sienna liked them immediately. I also brought onto the car a bunch of books to return to the library. One of the 6 books happened to be one of the 3 stories in the CD, "the Paper Bag Princess."

Today, when three of us were out, we listened to this story for countless times. Both Daddy and I were impressed by Munsch's version of princess. We went through quite a few Munsch's books. Somehow this one escaped us until now when it came in the forms of both book and CD. This is exactly the kind of stories we want our daughter to read and be exposed to. To say the very least, if Sienna switches her fixation from Cinderella to Elizabeth, all we need to get her for Halloween is a paper bag. Alas!

On top of the money we could save, it opens a whole array of possibilities to be one of a kid princess… Imagine this, a princess and prince were going to be married – usual, usual. Dragon took away the prince not the princess - not so usual. Princess Elizabeth runs after the dragon to rescue the prince instead of visa verse - unusual. She tricks the gigantic dragon instead of fighting and winning - very unusual. The prince rescued is not grateful – very unusual for a story book, very usual in real life. He blames the princess for not wearing nice dress and our princess gives it right back to him calling him a bum. And they didn't end up getting married after all, that's unusually refreshing compared with all those “happy ever after” endings.