365 Stories for Girls by Disney

So what you have here, in case you didn’t guess from the title, is 365 stories for girls. The stories are laid out one to a page. Each page has a date on the top so that the first story is Jan 1 and the last is Dec 31. This is good because it helps with teaching your child the calendar which is what I am doing. Also for some dates, like New Year’s Day, the story is appropriate to that day.

The rest of the page layout is the story with a little picture in the middle. The stories are for girls so mainly feature the Disney Princesses, Tinkerbell and Peter Pan, but also loads of other Disney characters. There are pros and cons to it all:

Pros:

• Each story is short.
• You don’t have to read every story if you are unfamiliar with the characters.
• You have your bedtime stories sorted for a whole year (if you can get by with just reading a short, no more than 5 minute story each day without your child wanting more).

Cons:

• Each story is short.
• Some of the stories don’t really get going (because they are so short) or seem to end at a weird place.
• Only one picture per story, and Disney is surely all about the visual images than the words.

For us the best stories were the ones where the story was part of a film we have seen. This was the case for The Princess and the Frog and Tangled for example.

(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)