No, these girls are measured by their ability to fight the encroaching armies of (scary and creepy) witches that are threatening all the kingdoms. These are not the kind of princesses who demonstrate their princessosity by feeling the sting of a pea beneath several mattresses. She makes her way to Pennyroyal Academy, a school for budding princesses and knights. Larson’s “Pennyroyal Academy,” for middle-grade readers, a young girl in the throes of a “memory curse” finds herself in the forest, clad only in a frock made of spider webs. But now, two new books have arrived that just might make it safe to wave your princess flag again in public. I remember when, a few years ago, my own 3-year-old took her copy of “Polite as a Princess” to the playground and I begged her to stuff it in the cover of a New Republic. Over the past decade or so, storybook princesses have gotten a worse rep than even the Koch brothers.
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