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Any really, The Paper Bag Princess" is the best book ever if you want to blow the who princess thing out of the water. [/quote]

Speak for yourself.  I think that [b]the book raises as many issues as it "solves"[/b].[/quote]

I've never read it - can you expand on this at all?[/quote]

PP here.  Here's the Wikipedia summary of the plot:

"Princess Elizabeth plans on marrying Prince Ronald, who is practically perfect. However, a dragon arrives who destroys her kingdom, kidnaps Ronald, and burns all her clothes so that she has no choice but to wear a paper bag. Elizabeth follows the dragon and Ronald, and seeking to rescue her fiancé, challenges the dragon to burn forests with fire and to fly around the world. The dragon completes the tasks but after flying around the world a second time becomes tired and falls asleep. Elizabeth rescues Ronald, who is ungrateful and tells her to return when she looks more like a princess. Elizabeth realizes that she is better off without Ronald and sets off into the sunset to live her own life."

I just think that to get beyond some of the gender problems our country has, it doesn't help to have ungrateful/jerky Ronald in the story.  Why even introduce this (new) stereotype to kids?  I don't want my sons to get any ideas from the Ronald character (what does "a real princess" look like?), and I wouldn't want a daughter to think that this is the way any men need to be.  Maybe I'd feel differently if I had daughters.

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