Being a Princess is Very Hard Work
Sarah Kilbride
Ada Grey
Bloomsbury, 2018
32pp., hbk., RRP $A21.99
9781408881934
Throughout the generations, inspired by storybooks and real-life princesses like Elizabeth and Margaret, Anne, Diana, and now Catherine and Megan, little girls have had dreams of being a princess, no matter how fleetingly. But when the little girl in the story is dropped off at princess school by her parents, she soon finds it not just about pretty dresses and handsome princes.
Being a princess is very hard work,
There’s so much to do it would drive you berserk.
Not only is there so much to learn like sitting on a throne for hours, practising handshakes and being tested by spinning wheels and dragons, but there is also so much you are not allowed to do. No bouncing on the trampoline, no nits in your hair, no burping or farting or picking your nose… really, in the end it is much better to be an ordinary little girl.
With its fast-moving rhyme and bright pictures that are full of humour and detail this is a story that will not only illuminate the behind-the-scenes life of princesses but will also reaffirm that little girls are perfect just as they are.
Lots of fun and perhaps an inspiration to look at what really lies behind some of the other glamorous jobs that appeal.