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From NBC's TODAY coanchor Savannah Guthrie and educator Allison Oppenheim comes an empowering fairy tale with a twist.
In the tradition of Not All Princesses Dress in Pink and Princess in Black, Princesses Wear Pants follows the unflappable Princess Penelope Pineapple, who knows how to get the job done while staying true to herself. Princess Penelope lives in a beautiful palace with a closet full of beautiful dresses. But being a princess is much, much more than beauty. In fact, every morning Princess Penelope runs right past her frilly dresses to choose from her beloved collection of pants!
What she wears each day depends on which job she has to do. Will she command the royal air force sporting her sequined flight suit? Will she find her zen in her yoga pants and favorite tee? Or, will she work in the kingdom's vegetable garden with pocketed overalls for all of her tools?
Unfortunately for Princess Penelope, not everyone in the Pineapple Kingdom thinks pants are always appropriate princess attire. When the grand Lady Busyboots demands that Princess Penelope must wear a gown to the annual Pineapple Ball, the young royal finds a clever way to express herself. Penelope's courage (and style choices) result in her saving the day!
In their debut children's picture book, Savannah Guthrie and Allison Oppenheim team up for a savvy and imaginative story that celebrates fashion and girl power. Perfect for fans of Nickelodeon's Nella the Princess Knight, Princesses Wear Pants challenges gender stereotypes in the name of individuality, showing girls it's not how they look but what they do that matters.
Author Notes
Savannah Guthrie is the cohost of TODAY on NBC, as well as an attorney and legal analyst. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children. She is the author of Princesses Save the World and Princesses Wear Pants .
Allison Oppenheim is trained in clinical psychology and is the mother of three. She lives in New York City.
Eva Byrne is an artist who specializes in fashion illustration and children's books. She is the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Princesses Wear Pants and Princesses Save the World . She lives in the Irish countryside.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The answer is, of course, yes: that girls can wear pants as much as they like isn't news. Nonetheless, debut authors Guthrie, a Today Show host, and Oppenheim, a parent educator, introduce princess Penelope Pineapple, who believes, "Crowns and gowns have their place, no doubt./ But that's not all this girl was about." In addition to a closet full of dresses, Penny has an armoire stocked with pants for every occasion, whether farming, hosting a science fair, or hanging out. During the Pineapple Ball, Penny's decision to wear swim trunks under her dress pays off when she saves the royal cat from drowning. Debut illustrator Byrne's images-awash in pink, and rendered in elegant, loopy lines-exude an unapologetic fashionista sensibility that should find fans. But the perspective that motivates the story seems unnecessarily narrow (Penny is being true to herself, yes, but one can also make an impact on the world while wearing a dress), and the lumbering verse ("As the crowds climbed down the palace staircase,/ None could imagine what would soon take place") doesn't help. Ages 3-7. Authors' agency: Creative Artists Agency. Illustrator's agent: Anne Moore Armstrong, Bright Group. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
This book wants to be feminist.Princess Penelope Pineapple, illustrated as a white girl with dark hair and eyes, is the Amelia Bloomer of the Pineapple Kingdom. She has dresses, but she prefers to wear pants as she engages in myriad activities ranging from yoga to gardening, from piloting a plane to hosting a science fair. When it's time for the Pineapple Ball, she imagines wearing a sparkly pants outfit, but she worries about Grand Lady Busyboots' disapproval: " Pants have no place on a lady!' she'd say. / That's how it has been, and that's how it shall stay.' " In a moment of seeming dissonance between the text and art, Penny seems to resolve to wear pants, but then she shows up to the ball in a gown. This apparent contradiction is resolved when the family cat, Miss Fussywiggles, falls from the castle into the moat and Princess Penelope saves herafter stripping off her gown to reveal pink, flowered swimming trunks and a matching top. Impressed, Grand Lady Busyboots resolves that princesses can henceforth wear whatever they wish. While seeing a princess as savior rather than damsel in distress may still seem novel, it seems a stretch to cast pants-wearing as a broadly contested contemporary American feminist issue. Guthrie and Oppenheim's unimaginative, singsong rhyme is matched in subtlety by Byrne's bright illustrations. Skip it. (Picture book. 3-5) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
