For readers looking for the typical princess story, my chapter book The Very Little Princess: Rose’s Story might prove a surprise, as it tackles complex family issues. But for readers looking for something unexpected, it can be the ideal choice.School Library Journal said of the story, “Bauer weaves a fairy tale into a contemporary story of parental mental illness and resulting neglect.… While this book can be read simply as a fairy tale or on deeper levels of love and loss, it elicits the magic of The Velveteen Rabbit and Pinocchio, where only through love does one become real.”