My family seem determined that DD will like princesses so I am going to buy her a load of princess books and assorted tat

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this sort of stuff. Also the "people who bought this also bought..." link looks good. Someone linked to it on another thread.
So can you get ALL the assorted tat? Nighties, toys, T shirts etc?

I can recommend The Paper Bag Princess, Princess Knight, Pirate Girl, Princesses are not quitters, Cinder Edna and Not all princesses dress in pink.

When she gets older there is the Wrestling Princess, the Karate princess, the ordinary princess, the extra-ordinary princess, Rapunzel's revenge, the practical princess (and other liberating fairy tales), Princess Polly to the Rescue, The farthest away mountain (about a girl who wants to be a princess but decides not to be after meeting the prince), Ella enchanted, the wide awake princess.

Doesn't look like you can get t-shirts of princess smarty pants but you can get ones like this. I just got lost on that site....if only I had unlimited funds I'd buy it all like these and this and this (so cute) .

The Little Princess series by Tony Ross is also quite good and untwee.

The alphabet cubes are a hatful of awesome!

Thanks everyone will be back to note detail soon :)

What ages? Dd will soon be 3

DS is three in September and he loves all the ones in my first paragraph (plus the little princess ones which I completely forgot about.) He inherited them from DD who read them about the same age.

DD (6.5) has read all of the ones in my second paragraph, some of them when she was 4-5, some of them I think she will get more out of when she is older. I forgot to add this one too

BTW in DD's very very tiny princess stage I had to sew a sword loop onto her dresses - she was so influenced by the Princess Knight (funke) and Princess POlly to the rescue (lister) that she was baffled by all the other little girls who said they were princesses but didn't carry deadly weapons.

Yep, The Little Princess series is pretty good, our DD (2yo) loves them.

Zog by Donaldson/Scheffler has a great example of a princess who dumps princessing and "silly frilly dress(es)" in favour of being a doctor. The knight who erroneously tries to rescue her also asks if she'll train him up as a medic. Great fun.

Princess Smartypants is ace. I am a fan. Hope your dd likes her.

I think you need this t-shirt: www.cafepress.co.uk/evilgeniusstore.240710798

I shall be getting one for DD if my mother keeps calling her princess.

some great links on here, shall add this thread to my watch list!

the t-shirts are in dollars is there a link to a uk site where we can get them?

www.cafepress.co.uk/evilgeniusstore.240710798

5madthings-here are some in £££

www.zazzle.co.uk/crown_sword_self_rescuing_princess_tshirt-235273643401925029

www.zazzle.co.uk/self_saving_princess_tshirt-235768777390010017

thankr2peepoo lol at your name, my boys would love that name! :)

and lol at that site evil genius i looked at their other stuff and they have a top for babies that says something like get lost with the parenting advice my mummy is doing a great job already!

Those look great!

Those T-shirts are ace!!

www.zazzle.co.uk/well_behaved_women_rarely_make_history_tshirt-235990361607618890
www.zazzle.co.uk/righteousbabe_righteousbabe_this_is_what_a_fe_tshirt-235521685238245714
www.zazzle.co.uk/i_am_girl_hear_me_roar_tshirt-235307692426727188
www.zazzle.co.uk/suffragette_magazine_tshirt-235003573568169572
www.zazzle.co.uk/this_princess_saves_tshirt-235358444486270067
www.zazzle.co.uk/well_behaved_women_rarely_make_history_tshirt-235027737558808283
LOVE THIS ONE
www.zazzle.co.uk/dark_girls_rule_the_world_tshirt-235074661993278894
www.zazzle.co.uk/well_behaved_dragonflies_tshirt-235373595208799254
www.zazzle.co.uk/lucy_stone_american_abolitionist_and_suffragist_tshirt-235264452307870335

Thanks 5madthings, my daughter is obsessed with robots. She is currently writing a K9 and R2D2 adventure story. My name is my son's attempt to join in with the fun but with toddler pronounciation.

Another good princess is Princess Leia - she disguises herself as a bounty hunter to rescue Han and is a pretty good military general and leader, she is General Leia in episode 6. She also doesn't simper or sink into the background. Her mother Padme is pretty forceful and impressive too as queen. There are lots of other fabulous women in Star Wars-we have the Visual Dictionary, the character dictionary and the Lego Star wars dictionary and there are many more characters than I remembered.

*many more female characters than I remembered