The Prince and the Dressmaker
A fairy tale for any age, Jen Wang's The Prince and the Dressmaker will steal your heart.
Paris, at the dawn of the modern age:
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Community Reviews
This was cute, but I was sad that I didn't go all gaga over it the way I expected I would based on all the gushing reviews. Important message on being who you really are, stomping stereotypes, and all that jazz, but at the end of the day I just "liked" it.
This was a sweet story with an unexpectedly happy ending. I liked the art style a lot as well.
At the end when the king showed up and walked that runway in the red dress I just died of happy. I loved that the story didn't go with a grudgingly accepting parent, but instead had the king asking what he did wrong that his kid felt like he couldn't be themselves. AND that he went right from that moment into "I am supporting my kid RIGHT THE HECK NOW".
Nice message to see. Queer folks too often get the story line of 'your family MIGHT accept you eventually, maybe, if you don't make it too hard'. Which I know sadly reflects reality sometimes. But I love seeing a more hopeful message in fiction.
At the end when the king showed up and walked that runway in the red dress I just died of happy. I loved that the story didn't go with a grudgingly accepting parent, but instead had the king asking what he did wrong that his kid felt like he couldn't be themselves. AND that he went right from that moment into "I am supporting my kid RIGHT THE HECK NOW".
Nice message to see. Queer folks too often get the story line of 'your family MIGHT accept you eventually, maybe, if you don't make it too hard'. Which I know sadly reflects reality sometimes. But I love seeing a more hopeful message in fiction.
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