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Princess Stories

Some princesses are girly girls, but not all princesses wear pink! Princesses might wear frilly dresses, tennis shoes or shiny armor. Princesses can be from all over the world and from right next door. Check out some of these books to read about all types of princesses!

Also, visit your nearest Richland Library location for even more book recommendations from our children’s librarians.


Cinderella by Max Eilenberg
Amazon Says: Aspiring princesses will be entralled by this lively retelling of the classic rags-to-riches story, brightened by playful, quirky illustrations. Cinderella's evil step...
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Amazon Says: Not all princesses dress in pink.Some play in bright red socks that stink,blue team jerseys that don’t quite fit,accessorized with a baseball mitt,and a sparkly crown!Prince...
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Amazon Says: Once upon a time there was ... a princess who loved all her beautiful ponies, a cool muscle dude who rode an awesome motorcycle. But a giant came and started stealing them! Th...
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Princess Bess Gets Dressed by Margery Cuyler
Amazon Says: Princess Bess has loads of clothes made with satin, snaps, and bows. And she changes them all day, for her lessons and ballet. But if a certain truth be told, her fa...
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Amazon Says: The headstrong heroine of this charming picture book is completely fed up. She's not allowed to wear anything but fussy, frilly princess dresses; she's not allowed to leave th...
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Princess Grace by Mary Hoffman
Amazon Says: This year two girls will be selected as princesses in the town parade, and Grace can?t wait to be one of them. It?s the perfect opportunity to dress up?but how, exactly, shoul...
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Princess Pigtoria And The Pea by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Amazon Says: An alliterative romp through the letter P with Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole, the team who brought us SOME SMUG SLUG, THE WORRYWARTS, FOUR FAMISHED FOXES AND FOSDYKE, D...
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Princess, Princess by Penny Dale
Amazon Says: A little princess can only be woken with a kiss - but from whom? There’s a princess in a castle, sleeping, sleeping. . . . Who will wake the princess with a kiss? ...
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Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm
Amazon Says: Surely among the most original and gifted of children's book illustrators, Paul O. Zelinsky has once again with unmatched emotional authority, control of space, and narrative ...
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The Sleeping Beauty by Trina Schart Hyman
Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the thirteenth fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.Amazon

Amazon Says: In this hilarious collection of princess stories with a distinctive spin, there's Cinderella, who was, though you may not know it, Sleeping Beauty’s mom; Sleeping Beauty, ...
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Amazon Says: His Highness the Prince may be a frog, but that?s not going to stop these lively girls from attending his ball. Starting with Princess Alice, the twentysix princesses?each wit...
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Amazon Says: When it comes to sorting out a Real Princess from a Fake Princess, the famous pea-under-the-mattress test is tried-and-true. But for those of you who may have wondered how any...
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Waking Beauty by Leah Wilcox
Amazon Says: Everyone knows Sleeping Beauty has to be woken with a kiss, except Prince Charming. Every time the fairies watching over her try to tell him, he interrupts with his ideas of h...
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