Product Review: Sadie: The Paper Crown Princess {Softcover}
‘Let Your Heart Sparkle’
The fact that I have never reviewed an Austin, TX children’s author is purely coincidental. While I am not going to entirely give up my product research methodology in this post, I will say that I always look at concept followed by product execution and location of the author, company or inventor is always one of the last things on my list when I chose my favorite products for my blog posts. I am not here to say whether that is a good or bad methodology to choose the best products, but I will say that in today’s macroeconomic times, product location means very little in the scheme of time and materials involved in the market. It is actually very rare to find a product that is truly 100% composed entirely of one country and that is just the world in which I have always lived. That does not take away from the fact that I am a proud American and (adopted state) Texan and I, of course, get excited about local products if they are, well, exciting. And this, my lovely readers, is an exciting children’s book (I was lucky to get an advanced review copy!) I want to champion that just happens to be the premiere book by an Austin resident that speaks volumes to me on a very important subject of being an empowered girl.
Enter Sadie: The Paper Crown Princess. Girls love to be princesses, right? But what exactly does it mean to be a princess? In most fairy tales it means finding that one true love, usually a rich prince, of course, and somehow there is a happily ever after no questions are asked. Say it with me now….barf. Books like Sadie are the types of intellectual children’s literature I want my daughter to experience not only as a child, but as a girl, to show that a princess is just a fairy tale and that a real princess is being a humanitarian.
Sadie is not the usual pupil at the Princess Academy. She is taught to be a ‘proper’ princess with all the proper etiquette that is expected of her during her course work but the real story comes when she is tasked with going out in the world to show how she learned all her princess lessons for the final exam. She travels to parts of the world where there is severe poverty, hunger and real devastating issues instead of which way to hold your fork when you eat and Sadie is up to the task of her real mission and shows what it means to have real princess qualities in life. This story is so breathtakingly beautiful it is a wonder why it has never been told but I am glad that it has now. Any mom to a girl will want to pre-order their copy today because you will want to share this with your child. While the story of what it means to be a real ‘princess’ is enough for me to have done a review on Sadie, I am especially proud it was told by an Austinite and Austin Blogger. You are amazing, Amanda! Sign me up for your sequel.
About Author Amanda Evans: Amanda is an Austinite, mother of four (three girls), former elementary education teacher, Austin Blogger (check out her blog, Keep It Complicated) and now she is a children’s author. Follow Amanda’s other blog for Sadie to learn about her and Sadie’s story of being a member of the Paper Crown Princess Society whose motto is that ‘every little girl needs to hear that they are a beautiful creation in progress.’
Bonus! Website Features Coming Soon: Request a Classroom Visit from Amanda, Downloadable Literature Packets and Join the Paper Crown Princess Society! Exciting stuff!
Coming May 2012! Sadie: The Paper Crown Princess will be available in print and e-reader formats this Mother’s Day, May 13, 2012. Presale starts April 23rd!
Sadie: The Paper Crown Princess {Softcover}
List Price: $ 10.00 {Softcover} – Hardcover Price was TBD at the time of this post.
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