Lucas Blogs About the Prince and the Dressmaker
I suppose I could make a joke about how manly this picture isn't, but that seems out of keeping with the spirit of a book about being true to yourself, traditional gender roles be damned. Hmm, is pointing that out a way of trying to have my cake and eat it? ‾\_(ツ)_/‾ So, what's this book's dea—oh, wasn't this in your Unhelpfully Specific Holiday Gift Guide ? Yep! I gave it to my first cousin once removed. She's a precocious eight-year-old. You mentioned that. What did she think? Well, her mom said it was a hit, so I guess she liked it. [ UPDATE: I just received a thank you note in which she claims to have read the book ~2,000 times. There isn't a date on the note, but even conservatively, that's more than 100 readings per day, I think we can safely say that this one was a hit. - 1/9/2020] So . . . what's it about? Well, Jen Wang's The Prince and Dressmaker is a graphic novel (but let's be real, it's a comic book) set in Paris...