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A photo of Princess Palooza

Princess Palooza

Six imaginative little girls spend a day having fun together at a princess-themed playground.

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A photo of Princess Party

Princess Party

Shows the many different ways a princess can be an incredible girl.

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The Very Fairy Princess

Also available in Hoopla. Despite her scabby knees and dirty fingernails, Geraldine knows that she is a princess inside and shows it through her behavior at home and in school.

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A photo of The Princess and the Frogs

The Princess and the Frogs

Princess Cassandra has everything she wants except a pet to play with that would match her favorite green dress, but each time someone brings her a frog and she kisses him goodnight, he turns into a prince.

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A photo of Princess Peepers

Princess Peepers

When the other princesses make fun of her for wearing glasses, Princess Peepers vows to go without, but after several mishaps--one of which is especially coincidental--she admits that she really does need them if she wants to see.

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A photo of Sleeping Cinderella and Other Princess Mix-ups

Sleeping Cinderella and Other Princess Mix-ups

Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel are all unhappy, but when they decide to switch places for a day each discovers what she likes--and what she can change--about her own life.

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La Princesa and the Pea

Also available in Overdrive. "A rhyming twist on a classic fairy tale in which a queen places a pea under a young lady's mattress to see if she is truly a princess. Incorporates Spanish words and includes a glossary"--

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A photo of The Princess and the Pig

The Princess and the Pig

When a new baby princess accidentally changes places with a piglet, both of their lives are forever changed.

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Princesses Wear Pants

Also available in Hoopla. Princess Penelope Pineapple stays busy flying planes, exercising, and gardening, always wearing pants, and so when disaster strikes at the Pineapple Ball, Penny is prepared.

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A photo of The Princess and the Peas

The Princess and the Peas

Lily-Rose May is perfect in every way, until she kicks up such a fuss about eating her peas that her dad calls the doctor. He diagnoses a severe case of Princess-itis and packs Lily Rose off to live at a palace. But is a pea-free life of royal luxury as good as it sounds?

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A photo of Princess Grace

Princess Grace

Grace wants to participate in her community festival's princess float, but first she must decide what sort of a princess she wants to be--from an African princess in kente cloth robes to a floaty pink fairy tale princess.

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A photo of Twenty-six Princesses

Twenty-six Princesses

Twenty-six princesses, one for each letter of the alphabet, go to a party at the prince's castle.

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A photo of Princess Says Goodnight

Princess Says Goodnight

Rhyming text presents what a princess might do between leaving the ball and saying goodnight.

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A photo of The Princess and the Pea

The Princess and the Pea

A simplified version of the tale in which a girl proves that she is a real princess by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds. This version is set in Africa and rendered with oil paint and cut paper.

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Goldilicious

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A little girl and her brother play with her imaginary gold-horned unicorn that can float on water, fly, and turn herself into a fairy princess.

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A photo of The Princess and the Three Knights

The Princess and the Three Knights

Also available in Hoopla. A king devises a frightful final competition for the three knights who have excelled in the quest for the hand of his daughter, who possesses incomparable inner and outer beauty, in order to determine which is truly worthy of her love.

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A photo of Princess Wannabe

Princess Wannabe

After magically entering her bedtime fairy tale book, Fern discovers what it is like to be a princess.

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A photo of Princesses Are Not Perfect

Princesses Are Not Perfect

Also available in RB Digital. Three princesses, each with a particular skill, decide they are bored with what they do and swap jobs.

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A photo of Will Princess Isabel Ever Say Please?

Will Princess Isabel Ever Say Please?

Princess Isabel has such bad manners that even though she has many chances to marry a handsome prince, each one is put off by her rudeness.

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A photo of The Big Princess

The Big Princess

Once upon a time ...a king and queen discover, among their flowers, the teensiest, tiniest princess. Such a charming, sweet little thing! They are instantly taken with her - she becomes the daughter they never had, the child they had always dreamed of. The Queen immediately sets about finding her a perfect-sized bed and only a tiny ring box will do. But, in no time at all, the princess grows too big for her miniature bed. In fact, with each passing day, the princess grows bigger and BIGGER. Soon, she is taller than her parents, taller than her bedroom ...and the princess keeps growing until her HEAD pokes through the top of even the TALLEST tower! Can the King figure out how to break the spell and save his beloved princess before his castle crumbles and falls?

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A photo of Princess! Fairy! Ballerina!

Princess! Fairy! Ballerina!

Playing indoors on a rainy day three little girls debate whether they should dress up as a princess, a fairy, or a ballerina.

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A photo of Dragons Rule, Princesses Drool!

Dragons Rule, Princesses Drool!

When two princesses invade his kingdom and begin changing things, Dragon seeks help from a knight to stop the invasion.

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I Want Two Birthdays!

Also available in Hoopla. A little princess decides that two birthdays would be better than one, and three better than two, until every day becomes her birthday, but she soon realizes that the more birthdays she has, the less special they are.

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Would You Rather Be a Princess Or a Dragon?

"Some little ones want to be princesses; others want to be dragons. The message of this book is that you can actually be both! There are lots of things you can be: a little wild, a little sweet. A little polite, a little troublesome. A little dainty, a little dragony"--

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A photo of Princess Easy Pleasy

Princess Easy Pleasy

When her parents take her on exotic vacations, Princess Easy Pleasy is impossible to please, but when she sees that the alternative is being bored at home, she changes her behavior.

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Princess In Training

Viola is a skateboarding, karate-chopping, moat-diving princess, to the distress of her parents, and so she accepts an invitation to Princess Camp, hoping to become the "darling of her kingdom."

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Part-time Princess

A girl escapes her annoying little brother and the drudgery of school and home life when she travels to a magical kingdom each night and embarks on a series of adventures.

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A photo of The Water Princess

The Water Princess

Also available in Overdrive. "The story of one young girl's quest to bring clean drinking water to her African village"--

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A photo of Don't Kiss the Frog!

Don't Kiss the Frog!

"This collection of six stories about princesses with attitude turns fairy-tale traditions upside down."--Dust jkt.

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A photo of Waking Beauty

Waking Beauty

Prince Charming tries all sorts of silly ways to wake Sleeping Beauty before he learns how he is really supposed to wake her up.

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A photo of Princess Me

Princess Me

A little girl imagines being a princess, with her stuffed animals serving as royal subjects. Make way! Make way! Here comes the princess of the land. She's sweet and kind. She's oh-so-grand. And just who is she, this lovely Princess Me? Come inside this book to see! A child's bedroom is transformed into a magical kingdom in this bright, lively offering from Karma Wilson -- the author of the bestselling series that began with Bear Snores On, illustrated by Jane Chapman.

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A photo of Not All Princesses Dress In Pink

Not All Princesses Dress In Pink

Rhyming text affirms that girls can pursue their many interests, from playing sports to planting flowers in the dirt, without giving up their tiaras.

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A photo of The Twelve Dancing Princesses

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

A retelling, set in Africa, of the story of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and how their secret is eventually discovered.

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