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Save now on Holiday Pre-Orders!
1-2 Dresses - 25% off w/code: HOLIDAY2022
3+ Dresses - 30% off (no code needed)
Free U.S. shipping on 2+ pre-order dresses!
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Pre-orders will ship in November 2022.
by Diana Peterfreund March 09, 2018 2 min read
When Eva and Rebecca offered me the opportunity to curate the Princess Awesome Book Club, I was so excited. As a children’s author for the last ten years, I’ve witnessed the profound influence books can have on young minds. I myself discovered the world in large part through books, and with a daughter of my own, I see the way she learns and envisions the world around her changing with everything she reads.
And I’m not just talking about non-fiction or “literary” books, either. My daughter is a huge fan of comic books, especially the DC Superhero Girls series by Shea Fontana, in which the female superheroes (and a few super villains) of the DC comic universe are reimagined as roommates at a superpowered high school. Can a straight arrow like Wonder Woman find common ground with a prankster like Harley Quinn? Can a bunch of kids really end up saving the day?
That’s one of the things I really love about children’s books. In their pages, kids aren’t helpless bystanders in an unknowable world—they are just young people, with the same abilities and potential as adults.
There’s a saying by A Wrinkle In Time author Madeleine L’Engle, regarding whether children’s books are a lesser medium of art: “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
For children have the power to make the world a better place, and they are going to use it.
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Diana Peterfreund has published more than a dozen novels for adults, teens, and kids, including the four-book Secret Society Girl series (Bantam Dell), the “killer unicorn novels” Rampantand Ascendant (Harper Teen), For Darkness Shows the Stars (a post-apocalyptic retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion), and Across a Star-Swept Sea (inspired by the classic series The Scarlet Pimpernel). Her newest series, OMEGA CITY, is a contemporary adventure novel for younger readers set in a secret bunker city somewhere under modern Maryland.
Her works have been named to the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age list, the Capitol Choices (metro DC-area) reading list, and the Texas Lonestar List, as well as having been named to Amazon’s Best Books of the Year. In addition, she’s written several critically acclaimed short stories and a variety of non-fiction essays about popular children’s literature. Diana lives outside Washington D.C., with her family.
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by Eva St. Clair September 02, 2023 3 min read
I’m an illustrator, surface designer and educator based in Atlanta, GA. I live with my boyfriend and our three rescue kitties, who very often make it into my art, especially the two black cats.
I feel very comfortable creating art for kids, because I'm really a kid at heart. I love cute animals and bright colors. I find it particularly satisfying to distill complex concepts into simple shapes that are stylized but easily recognizable.
by Eva St. Clair August 18, 2023 2 min read 5 Comments
Sienna Farr was one of Princess Awesome's first models, before our Kickstarter, before we were much more than a dream and a few dresses made of tee shirts and quilting material. She died in a fire that also seriously injured her mother on August 11, 2023, aged 13.
by Eva St. Clair June 26, 2023 1 min read
Princess Awesome is so proud to partner with Women in Aviation International to sponsor a design contest during the summer of 2023. We are looking for your awesome ideas for new clothing that features airplanes, helicopters, engineering concepts, schematics - anything that has to do with aviation.