cover image The Secret Princess Handbook: Or How to Be a Little Princess

The Secret Princess Handbook: Or How to Be a Little Princess

Jan Lewis. Little Simon, $14.95 (14pp) ISBN 978-0-689-84373-0

Also encouraging girls to dress up and act out their fantasies is Kristen Hall's I'm a Fairy Princess! Storybook and Wings kit, illus. by Arlene Kennedy, featuring a five-year-old princess and her misadventures with a magic wand. Brief descriptions of ""Fairy Friends from Around the World"" and instructions for making a ""fairy princess wand"" complete the storybook. Pink and purple wire-framed fairy wings are packaged in the cover. I'm a Ballerina! from the same duo, follows a similar format, but comes with a pink tutu. (Nov.)