Princess Bubble is your average fairytale. Sure there’s a
beautiful and good princess who lives in a fairytale kingdom,
but her quest to find her Prince Charming doesn’t end the
way that most “happily ever after” books do. No, this thirty
five paged book, complete with colorful and beautiful drawn
illustrations, has a very different ending.
Princess Bubble finds herself a graduate of Royal University,
she takes a job with Royal Airlines so she can learn about
other kingdoms and cultures, and then this well-rounded and
beautiful princess finds that many of her friends, also
Princesses, are starting to get married. The Queen tells
Princess Bubble she must find a Prince so she too can live
“happily every after.” But after searching for a prince,
Princess Bubble has a visit from one of my favorite Fairy
Godmothers ever. Princess Bubble’s Fairy Godmother tells
her that she doesn’t need to have a Prince Charming to have
a “happily ever after.” She tells her that if she lives a good
life, loves God, does good deeds and treats others well and is
comfortable with who she is, then she is already living her
happily ever after! Princess Bubble realizes that the other
fairytales were wrong. She realized that since she had great
family and friends, was a good person that she didn’t need a
Prince to live a happy life. Princess Bubble went on to do
many great things and she did live, “happily ever after.”
The authors, Susan Johnston and Kimberly Webb, are “never-
married, seasoned career women-turned-authors
not meet through their former employer, Delta Airlines, but
rather through Johnston’s ex-boyfriend. These small town
Southern girls immediately became kindred spirits and have
been close friends ever since. Taking advantage of their
company travel benefits, these two well-educated women
decided to continue their education through their many
excursions all over the world. As they traveled, Johnston and
Webb formulated the idea of a new generation of fairy tales:
encouraging women to find their security in something much
deeper than a left-hand ring and to emphasize the notion that
“happily ever after” is attainable for everyone.”
What a fabulous message for young girls! Even in 2011
young women are just hit with a barrage of messages from
all around them that tell them what it means to be a “happy
woman” or a “successful” woman today. Many times this
message also says that to be complete or a success you must
marry and have a family. While I found that to be my path,
it certainly doesn’t mean that is the right decision for every
woman. This book will help me enforce the message to my
own young daughter that she can have a happily ever after
herself that may or may not include a prince of her own.
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