Disney Princess Collection

I purchased this book for my daughter several months but she wasn't overly interested. She just turned three and has recently developed an interest in books with stories (vs. picture books). Now she LOVES this book. We have read a couple stories from this collection before naptime and bedtime for the last week. She likes selecting a couple stickers after each story, too. Pros: Many stories that are a reasonal length (5-10 min to read), good pics, fun stickers, variety of characters/princesses Cons: The pacing of these abbreviated stories is irratic. Most of these versions seem like they describe 50% of the real story in the last few paragraphs

Disney puts out new versions of these every couple years. I still have a set from 30+ years ago, and a couple from the previous edition, and three so far in this set. My three year old son loves it. The table of contents has pictures of all the stories so he can easily pick what he wants to read. The artwork throughout is more polished and cleaner than in the previous edition. An finally, the stickers are a hit. Not exactly ideal for around his 1yr old little brother, but he's growing out of putting everything in his mouth, so a bunch of teeny-tiny stickers isn't much of a problem. And I do mean teeny-tiny. There are a few stickers as big as an inch, but most are about 1cm diameter dots. And a thing about the stories. The princess book re-tells many of the same stories as in the other books, but from the perspective of the female heroine character (mostly very well done), so they aren't exactly the same, but few stories are original, and of those few rate high on the creativity scale. Least favorite example (but unfortunately one of my son's favorites), Little Mermaid plays hide and seek with her fish friend. The story goes though all the underwater 'sets' from the movies, and they ask someone there if they've seen flounder, but always get a variation of the same answer 'I won't tell, but he went that way'. It ends fortunately with 'now it's my turn to hide', I don't think I could take the other half of that adventure, the excitement is just too intense.