Title: The Paper Bag Princess
Author: Robert Munsch
Illustrator: Michael Martchenko
Publication Year: 1980
Website: robertmunsch.com
Age Group: Kindergarten, Early Elementary
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Comments: This book is simultaneously hilarious and not at all what I was expecting. I don’t know why, but for some reason I thought it would be above my three year old’s head so I held off on checking it out from the library even though I knew our local library had a copy. I finally checked it out when my daughter was close to 2.5 and my older son was 4.5 years old. To say they both have fallen in love with this book is an understatement. The first time I read it, I enjoyed it, and was surprised by the ending, but I wasn’t sure if my kids liked it. It seemed like they weren’t quite sure what to think about it. However, my 4 year old asked for it again the next night, and by that reading, he knew it was funny. (I think maybe throughout the first reading he was worried the dragon was going to do something scary, but the second time he heard it, he felt relaxed enough to enjoy it.) He liked it so much that after having it read to him for a week, he started “reading” it to himself on his own. What is hilarious is that my toddler laughs out loud and in an exaggerated fashion at all the funny places, like when the dragon tells the princess that he has already eaten a whole castle today and she should come back tomorrow. She cracks me up. What I like most about this book is that unlike some of the other books my kids enjoy, even having read this one regularly for about a month, I haven’t gotten tired of it. When they ask for The Paper Bag Princess, I say “great.”
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