Lists and Suggestions for Kids

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. After new girl Kim tells her classmates she is from a royal family, her lie grows and grows.

Young Princess Stringbean, who loves to run everywhere she goes, attends the Perfect Princess Academy with less than perfect results.

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"--

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

"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"--

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.

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."

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.

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

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

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

Prince Henrik makes a plan to find a wife who is nothing like his royal brother's wife, who he thinks is too sensitive.

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

"A comparison of the life of a fairy tale princess vs. that of a real medieval princess"--

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