What is a Princess?

Mookie, my little princess

  Living with a girly girl, we're all about princesses in our household.  When Mookie was smaller we had a Disney easy reader called What is a Princess? It asked the question over and over and answered with "a princess is kind...gentle...smart", etc...   Well, the book I received from Christian Focus 4 Kids to review, How to Be a Bible Princess by Catherine Mackenzie, takes the basic qualities of a good princess to a different level.  Ms. Mackenzie takes major or minor women (some I had to look up and read the story again) from the Bible & highlights the characteristics that God used for his purposes, using both good and bad princesses as examples.  For each chapter she lays out the story of that particular character, uses some humorous quizzing to see how the reader may react to the situation, and discusses the character trait displayed in the story and how girls can find that within themselves.  The really cool thing that the author does though, is at the end of each chapter she turns it back to Jesus and how he showed those valuable traits.  Throughout the chapter she is constantly citing scripture to back up what she is laying out there for the reader.

   The book's cover automatically draws your little princess in, when we opened the package containing my copy, my little princess took one look at it's glittery cover and ran away with it to her room:) At 125 pages it is the perfect length for my soon to be 8 year old who is starting to read chapter books (there were a couple of longer chapters, but hey, one was Esther & Mookie loves Esther, so we let that pass).  However, I think it would be best read as a read-aloud devotional to do with your daughter.  Ms. Mackenzie puts forth some really thought provoking ideas and I think that it would be best served as a discussion tool. 
  With all the secular princess media out there, some with questionable subplots, it is so refreshing to find a book that draws a girl's interest to the Biblical princesses and does it in a fun and engaging way.  I loved the quote at the end that says, "a woman who loves God and his Word is to be praised.  She is worth more than rubies and she is worth more than princesses that wear rubies.  She is worth this because of her great God - and He is worthy!"

Thank you to Christian Focus 4 Kids for providing me with a free copy to review, it was a pleasure.  The opinions were my own:)