Pragmatic Princess: An Alphabet Of Girls

Fittingly, today is National Princess Day. It was created by the Swan Princess producers, who wanted to promote their film. Unfortunately, the movie failed at the box office due to the fact that its story couldn’t gel, and their attempt to talk about superficiality and the need to find your inner strength. Obviously, readers needed a new type of princess. As the new era came in, so did the need for more active girls. Disney princesses had to take action, as did those from Dreamworks and other companies. Yet there was a dearth of protagonists who were ordinary and made their destiny nonetheless.

Pragmatic Princess aims to fill the gap. While we all like the idea of being royalty, the truth is that you either have to be born into it or marry well, and that concept doesn’t breed independence. The same goes with being a magical girl or a superhero; not all of us will find a talking cat that tells us we are a chosen one, or an owl that leads us into a Darwinist island. We also don’t have to leave our world to find adventure and our purpose. That can be right at home, beneath our eyes. We just have to look.

Pragmatic Princess: 26 Superb Stories of Self-Sufficiency by Rachel Kowert, Ph.D.

At one school, 26 girls roam the hall and seek adventures. Each has a name that starts…