This Goodreads Choice Award-Winning book is another story about the fun-loving and familiar pig, Olivia. Students will love this book if they have already previously read Olivia books and fallen in love with her. It is the 7th Olivia book in which the independent and high-spirited pig questions her identity especially when her father calls her "his little princess." Olivia questions why the princesses that girls often envision are pink; she challenges this idea with thinking about Indian princesses or African princesses.
While this book may seem to be a typical girly book like the familiar Fancy Nancy books, it, in fact, challenges such girly stereotypical notions of princesses. I think this book could be used for both boys and girls in a lesson. One idea I thought of would be to read this book, discuss alternative types of princesses and princes, and then research or study different types. This could be used as a Social Studies lesson for even the upper elementary grades to learn about other cultures and their royalty.
The following is a picture of another activity in which students would compare and contrast two princess books and how the princesses are portrayed:
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