I'm a Pretty Princess

This is the best African America book that I ever read. They don't say "I'm black this or because I am black". this book is like or white counterparts that talk about being a beautiful princess and not bringing up race. It is ok to bring up race sometimes but not in a fairytale book.children can sense something wrong when you keep bringing up race. The princess has beautiful black rich friends and she has a handsome father and a beautiful mother and a cute baby brother. I love this book!

There aren't many princess books centered around a person of color, and fewer still that aren't overtly sexist. This book bucks the trend and is a healthy way to indulge your child's desire to be a princess without perpetuating negative stereotypes. That said, the story is somewhat weak. I'm glad to have purchased the book, but mostly because there aren't too many alternatives.

My daughter loves this book. She is 5 and reads like a scholar. She finished this book in 15 minutes. What she absolutely loves about this book is a princess she can relate too and one who looks like her.

This is the only black princess book I was able to find, I plan to read it at my toddler's upcoming princess birthday party and at the end have them all look in the mirror like the book says and "see" themselves as princess :)

It's hard finding books that will help with self esteem. I have a niece that is 3 and I got the book for her birthday. Everytime she comes to visit she asks me to read the book. I'm so happy she is in love with the book.

My daughter is really into princesses right now so of course I went looking for everything princess. Its difficult to find books that show girls of color and its even harder to find something besides the one AA Disney princess that we all know (even though I love Tiana!) so I was thrilled to come across this book. It has a great message, the illustrations are excellent and my daughter loves it! The only thing that would make it better is if it came in a hardcover!

I love reading this book to my daughter! This is one of my favorite books by Crystal Swain-Bates. I give it as gifts for birthdays and Christmas. I've bought so many copies and will continue to do so. Every little girl (brown girls especially) should have a copy of this book. It's great to see brown girls depicted as pretty and princesses!!! My favorite princess book by far.

This book, I bought for my grand daughter's birthday. She is a Princess and I am gifting a princess theme.There aren't too many books that have a black child in them so beautifully illustrated as in this book! The pictures, the drawings, the colors are great! I know she will enjoy it!

At its heart this book reasonably well attempts to say that it's what's inside you that counts, and that what you do and how you behave matter more than the things you have.The book has nice cartoon-y style pictures, but there is no story as such. I hadn't realised how American the book was and there are US spellings (color) as well as "Mommy" not "Mummy" (I'd have preferred the UK spellings). I didn't particularly like how the child in the book mentions she wears high heels but this is personal choice.The print and paper quality is very poor especially given the price (I paid £8). It's something like the quality of a children's magazine, with a more substantial cover.Having said all this, my daughter loved it immediately!

This book is basic and simple. Maybe suitable for 3 yr old. Every page is just a 1 line sentence. One sentence per page. Not much effort went into this book. So I’m returning it. The picture are nice though.

A good book for a black princess to eleva-te her self esteem by seeing images of her in this book. I’m going to keeping buying these kind of books for my children’s for any black child. Thanks for selling books for black children

Lovely book. Shame you can't walk into a store and buy a book about black princesses but this is a great buy.

Bought this for a 7 year old and has loved it.Loved the concept and the book was of good quality and arrived quickly. There was not much to read on the first few pages so my first thought was to send this back as i thought it was too much of an easy read for a 7 year old but the last few pages had paragraphs as opposed to lines .