Then pick a direction-north, south, east, or west- / and you can decide which parts you like best.” So begins this rhyming introduction to 16 Texan sites and cities, from Amarillo (“There are plenty of cattle, but few armadillo”) to Big Bend National Park. Come travel the land and meet people, too. “The great state of Texas is waiting for you. It’s a lot of fuss over “that sooty, messy-haired, badly dressed little princess,” but a loving, contagiously enthusiastic tribute nonetheless. The book’s success is indeed celebration-worthy, with over three million copies sold in many languages including Arabic, Chinese, Flemish and Dutch (“De prinses in de papieren zak”). It’s fun to learn that in Munsch’s original story, he had the princess punching the prince, but the publisher nixed it in the name of nobility-and that Martchenko’s preliminary last-page sketch showed the princess naked, free of even her paper bag. Readers will find a basic walk-through of the publishing process then and now, plus the inside scoop on the PBP: brief biographies of author and illustrator, how they met, the identity of the “real Elizabeth” and more. Here, 25 years after the publication of The Paper Bag Princess, is a giddy celebration of the book’s anniversary that also includes the complete original.
The story of the princess Elizabeth who outsmarts a dragon and puts down a prince has stolen the hearts of many.
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