Growing up, I always wanted to dress up as a Disney princess, but my costumes would usually miss the mark in some way. If your DIY princess attempts of yesteryear all rendered costumes that left ...

We all know Black folk have a murky history with our stories being told by non-Blacks; too often our culture seems to get lost in translation from one side of DuBois’s veil to the other. But not this ...

If you're a beauty lover, then odds are Halloween is one of your favorite holidays. It's a day when you can experiment as much as you want and get to have some real fun with your costume. What's the ...

If you don’t mind your heroine having the personality of wet cardboard, a royal kidnapping is a great story shortcut. Being a fairytale princess isn’t really that great a job. It’s comprised mainly of ...

Natasha Sharma, illus. by Priya Kuriyan. Karadi Tales (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-8-181-90335-8 Typically, the names of fairy tale princesses suit them ...

Princess Peach just doesn’t get enough credit. I say that as someone who was saved multiple times as a young gamer by Peach’s gliding jump in the U.S. version of Super Mario Bros. 2 and also loved her ...

What do you think of when you imagine a princess? Perhaps, it’s the type of young woman we encounter in Disney movies, the kind we see little girls dressed up as at themed birthday parties — beautiful ...

In “And Now His Watch Is Ended,” the latest episode of “Game of Thrones” (you might want to stop here if you’ve yet to see it), Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), the exiled royal who’s been building ...

Farmer Falgu is finding it challenging to make his daughter Eila understand that it is important to stay indoors now. And Princess Easy Pleasy is bored out of her mind. The characters from the world ...