The Paper Bag Princess - Modern Fantasy

This is a very charming, if a bit simple, book about a princess from a far away land. She is captured by a dragon and needs to be rescued! This is no normal fairy tale, however. While her prince is taking his sweet time, this brave princess tricks her captor into tiring himself out and using up all his fire. By the time her prince arrives the dragon is out of commission, and all he has to say is that she doesn't look very lady-like. The princess realizes he's a useless bum and walks away. I love the way this story flips the script on the old fairy tale story, and I think many girls in my class would appreciate a story in which the damsel is not exactly in distress. I would use this in my class as an example of creative fantasy, because I think that's a genre that could help my students with their own creative writing.