Mia\u2019s got a brand-new diary\u2014and a dream: joining Greenpeace \u201cto save the baby seals.\u201d But her mom is dating her algebra teacher, her crush barely knows she exists, and her dad\u2019s just informed her that she must move to Genovia to learn to be a princess. It\u2019s been decades since the 2000 release of The Princess Diaries and the 2001 Disney film adaptation, and the story\u2019s late 1990s setting shines through. Illustrator Crandall depicts the fashions, the landline phones, and the chunky desktop PCs\u2014with no social media or celebrity gossip blogs in sight. Yet the fairy tale doesn\u2019t feel dated\u2014or no more so than any story wherein the protagonist discovers she\u2019s the hereditary princess of a small European country. The full-color, manga-influenced art depicts an abbreviated version of Mia\u2019s torments as her Grandm\u00e8re attempts to mold her into a stylized, femme ideal of a princess. Mia\u2019s best friend, Lilly Moscovitz, wholly disapproves of her new aesthetic on social and political grounds. Mia takes the opportunity to befriend classmate Tina Hakim Baba (one of the few characters who isn\u2019t white). She also grows much closer to Lilly\u2019s brother, Michael, who \u201cknows HTML\u201d and \u201clooks really good without a shirt.\u201d This graphic novel adds nothing new but still solidly communicates the charm and humor of the original.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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