Have you ever blown out your candles on your birthday cake and wished you could be a princess? Most girls do, accept Mia Thermopolis who was content being an average ninth grader, who easily blended into the crowd and spent her extra time with her cat Fat Louie, her Best friend Lilly and her artistic mother. Mia gets the shock of her life when her ill father informs her that he is a prince of an entire country and she is his only heir. Mia is crowned Princess of Genovia, a small European country, once she learns her father's illness makes him infertile. Mia is at first shocked by this news and can not imagine being a princess with her awful hair and flat chest but ultimately rises to the occasion and is crowned Princess of Genovia. Along for the ride, is her grandmother (the queen of Genovia) who gives Mia "princess lessons," her best friend Lilly, Micheal (Lilly's brother) and of course various characters from Mia's school (Albert Einstein High School) who suddenly take notice of Mia once her secret is revealed. Princess Diaries is entitled so because the book is a series of diary entries personally from Mia, documenting her journey from an average fifteen year old to a Princess and the lessons she learns along the way!
This book seems interesting because it takes every little girl's greatest fantasy of being a princess and takes it into a teen girl's nightmare. Many girls would probably read this book because it corresponds to the movie with Anne Hathaway. I wonder which came first: the movie or the book?
ReplyDeleteThe book came first, there's acually a whole series that follows her journey (through diary entries) of becoming a princess and actually living the life. The books are much better than the movies, although I am a fan of both!
ReplyDeleteI saw the movie first and liked the idea behind the story so much that I decided to read the book. This was a wonderful story that I wish was around when I was younger because it is a dream of every little girl, to be a princess.
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