Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses

Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
Step into Reading
Reading with Help
Step 2
preschool - grade 1

This book has a good font and large colorful pictures appropriate for a beginning reader. The plot is more complicated than I expected because it condenses the whole DVD movie of the same title.
In Barbie's take on this classic tale Princess Genevieve and sisters dance each night in a secret place below their bedroom. Rather than the fairy king being their enemy, it is their father's evil cousin that they must fight. A valiant shoemaker helps them and becomes Genevieve's beau. Lovely costumes are featured throughout.

Barbie in a Mermaid Tale

Barbie in a Mermaid Tale
Step into Reading, Reading with Help, Step 2
(Preschool - Grade 1)
adapted by Christy Webster
based on the original screenplay by Elise Allen
illustrated by Ulkutay Design Group and Pat Kakula
children's fiction
ages 4-7

This 32 page adaptation from a direct to video Barbie film uses large, easy to read fonts, and colorful cartooning. Surfer girl, Merliah, goes on a big adventure under the sea with her trusty sidekick, the dolphin, Zuma.
The good news for feminists is that Merliah is not consumed with fashion, but having adventures and rescuing the ocean from certain doom.
For some reason the back cover says "What this book is about.. Barbie in a Mermaid Tale (tm) Marisa is a mermaid princess. Can she save the ocean from her evil sister?"
The main character is Merliah, not Marisa, so the cover got that wrong.
The evil mermaid is her aunt, not her sister, so the cover got that wrong, too.
Reading thirty two pages was too much to ask of the cover editor?