This Mom Was Tired Of Princesses. So She Did Something About It.

Professor Setsu Shigematsu found her efforts at limiting her daughter’s exposure to princess culture ineffective. When she refused to buy princess dolls for her then-3-year-old, they only became more desirable. Rather than trying to enforce an impossible ban, she decided to write her own princess story.That one story has grown into a whole series about…

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