Cover of “Dangerously Ever After,” Dashka Slater’s picture book about a daring princess with a taste for danger.

Dangerously Ever After

Not all princesses are made of sugar and spice—some are made of funnier, fiercer stuff. 

For readers seeking a princess with pluck comes an independent heroine who tackles obstacles with a bouquet of sniffling noses. At once lovely and delightfully absurd, here’s a story to show how elastic ideas of beauty and princesses can be.

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  • 2014 Surrey Picture Book of the Year

  • 2013 Cybil Award Nominee

  • 2013 Northern California Independent Booksellers Book of the Year Finalist

“Young readers will relate to this feisty character; the book will be a sure hit as a read-aloud.” —Library Media Collection

Princess Amanita laughs in the face of danger. Brakeless bicycles, pet scorpions, spiky plants–that’s her thing. So when quiet Prince Florian gives her roses, Amanita is unimpressed . . . until she sees their glorious thorns! Now she must have rose seeds of her own. But when huge, honking noses grow instead, what is a princess with a taste for danger to do? 

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Stop-motion characters from “Dangerously Ever After” standing outdoors beneath berry branches, promoting the short film adaptation.

Watch the Dangerously Every After Film!

Director Alba Enid Garcia

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Praise for Dangerously Ever After

  • “Docampo’s artwork is detailed with a whimsical French flair . . . older children will giggle at the snot joke and imaginative plant names.”

    — School Library Journal

  • “Young readers will relate to this feisty character; the book will be a sure hit as a read-aloud.”

    —Library Media Collection

  • “Poetic text captivates here . . . as do French artist Valeria Docampo’s sophisticated, color-drenched paintings.”

    — Austin Statesman

  • “Outstanding… Docampo’s brightly colored whimsical illustrations are just as quirky and odd as Slater’s imagination.”

    —Alyson Beecher, Kid Lit Frenzy

  • “My girls and I chuckled our way through the appealing absurdity of this refreshingly non-girly princess story. It’s one of the few picture books we’ve read that appeals to all my girls with equal enthusiasm.”

    —Inhabiting Books

  • “The story subverts the standard tropes of the princess genre very nicely… a rather delightful fantasy picture book, one I enjoyed lots!”

    —Charlotte's Library