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12/20/2009

"That's not how princesses act!"

The top book pick for young feminists is The Paper Bag Princess, according to the owner of Pandora Books in Madison, NJ. This book reverses the princess-prince-dragon stereotype: The princess outsmarts the dragon and saves the prince, and in the end chooses not to marry him. The bookstore owner also claimed that over the 20+ years she's been selling the book, one customer returned it, claiming, "That's not how princesses act!"

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