A Little Princess Treasury by Tony Ross

A Little Princess Treasury by Tony Ross
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Reviewer: Ruth Ng
Summary: Full of delightful naughtiness from toddlers' favourite princess!
Buy? Yes	Borrow? Yes
Pages: 96	Date: October 2010
Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd
ISBN: 978-1849392044
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Most parents of two to three year olds will surely be aware of The Little Princess. She is used universally whilst potty training thanks to I want my potty! and always seems to raise giggles and sniggers from little ones when her stories are read aloud. I do enjoy reading them aloud, as I get to be loud and shouty and obnoxious! This treasury is a lovely collection, with a wide range of stories as well as some puzzles for slightly older toddlers thrown in too.

We see the princess going through a variety of different experiences, such as giving up her dummy, losing her first tooth, gaining a sibling and going to hospital. I particularly enjoyed I want to do it by myself for that is a common cry in our house, and my daughter's favourite was I want TWO Birthdays, for obvious reasons! Tony Ross manages to capture both how little children think and feel in a way that is funny for both child and parent to read, and the topics he touches on are useful for day to day life with a tempestuous toddler!

I would've really liked to have given out 5 stars for this book, but I took half a star off because of the size of the pictures. Obviously being a collection they can't devote a whole page to each picture, but having 3 or 4 pictures per page did, at times, feel a little cramped, and it makes it less obvious to little ones which picture they are meant to be looking at. The illustrations are really part of the joy in these stories, setting the tone, demonstrating how loud/rude the little princess is being as well as being full of little details that you can point out to your child, so I missed them being in large format. In the end I began to point to pictures as I read, so my daughter could follow the story, and this seemed to work.

The puzzles are an added extra, good for rainy days. One seems to require cutting up the book in order to complete a picture puzzle...I can tell you there will be no scissors coming anywhere near our copy as that's certainly not something I want to encourage! But the others are harmless spot the difference, odd one out sort of puzzles (with answers at the back, just in case!) This would make a lovely gift, and provides perfect bedtime reading, although of course with fourteen stories in all the request for 'just one more' might see you reading for much longer than you'd intended!

I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to The Bookbag.

Further reading suggestion: Some more of our favourites to read aloud at playgroup and at bedtime are Penguin by Polly Dunbar and Some Dogs Do by Jez Alborough.

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