The Paper Mask Princess ~ by Stefanie Trilling, 2020
Covid, your microscopic images are really pretty and your antibodies are really neat. You look like a novel coronavirus, but you are a bum.
I've been enjoying the book parodies
Stefanie Trilling has been posting on Facebook. She has come up with some very exceptional titles, but I especially love
the one above that she posted today. Gotta love that random roll of toilet paper there, too. Here's the quote from the original book being parodied, and you can read what I wrote about this children's book a decade ago by clicking on the title.
The Paper Bag Princess ~ by Robert N. Munsch, 1980
"Elizabeth, you are a mess! You smell like ashes, your hair is all tangled and you are wearing a dirty old paper bag. Come back when you are dressed like a real princess."
"Ronald," said Elizabeth, "your clothes are really pretty and your hair is very neat. You look like a real prince, but you are a bum."
They didn't get married after all.
The dragon on this cover isn't Ronald, a prince, but it plays a major role in this story. Actually click on the middle picture of Princess Elizabeth in
my blog post from 2010, you'll see her confronting the dragon, who burns up whole forests with his fiery breath. Notice how the brave little princess flinches, but she doesn't run away. The Paper Mask Princess is also unflinching, wearing her mask and green scrubs and gloves to confront that big bad coronavirus.
1 comment:
Super clever! We loved that book when my daughter was young except she always told me, "she is supposed to marry him!" Ugh.
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