SuitabookThe Dragon Princess
Elizabeth Dawson Baker
- Reading
- Read it as a comic quest, pausing after tense encounters to ask how the friends respond to fear and difference. Leave space to explore whether Millie’s eventual control feels earned and meaningful.
- Themes
- Managing an unusual identity: Millie is a princess who repeatedly becomes a dragon and later gains control of her dragon magic. The situation can support reflection on living with an ability or feature that feels difficult to manage, but the book’s deeper judgement about identity is not established.
- Friendship across difference: Millie travels with a vampire, a troll and her young wizard-prince cousin on a shared mission. The group’s varied identities suggest an opportunity to consider co-operation among very different companions, but their relationships are not characterised in detail.
- Adventure and rescue: The group travels to the Frozen North, battles fearsome bears and saves imprisoned dragons before finding its way home. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Pay attention to how the adventure presents fear, battles and imprisoned dragons alongside humour. The balance between peril and comedy may matter to a child who is sensitive to threatening creatures.