purchased<\/a> Steimatzky and sadly died of cancer in 2021. To commemorate her and her success, Steimatzky launched The Little Princess on March 8th 2023 – International Women’s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBut let’s get back to our business. It’s hard for me to put into words how preposterous I find the text on the back cover, but I will try. Let’s say I accept the premise and reasoning of how there aren’t enough heroic female characters in children’s books and that is what keeping young girls from being inspired to change their reality and become the hero in their own lives. Really Steimatzky? A Little Princess?! That is your solution to the matter at hand and the first book you decided to go with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seriously! A princess? And based on one of the most innocent and naïve characters ever created at that? I mean, the one thing we can say for sure is that there is no shortage of lost princesses in distress in children’s classics. What about Jacky and the Beanstalk? Charlotte and the Chocolate Factory? Pinocchia? Patty Pan? Priscilla Jackson? Betty the Builder? Firewoman Samantha? Postwoman Patricia? How about Paula the Plumber or Sadie the Soldier? I guess those are less urgent. The first order of business is to treat the acute princess deficiency in Children Literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh, and by the way – from a quick glance I took through the book, I can tell you that the pilot in the book is still a man. So on top of improperly addressing the lack of worthy female role models for young girls, there is now also a whole new layer of creepiness of a young girl opening up to and bonding with a strange adult man she just met in the middle of the desert. Thanks, Steimatzky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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