Disney Princess Music Player Storybook (Disney Princess)

Features

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 32 pages
• Published by: Reader's Digest; Bk&Acces edition August 31, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0794404448
• ASIN: B000KRMWH2
• Book Dimensions: 12.6 x 12.4 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Book Description
Dancing, music, and Romance feature prominently in the lives of the Disney Princesses, and this storybook and play CD pack offers young fans of the Princesses plenty of opportunity to sing and dance their days away with Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Cinderella, and Belle (Beauty and the Beast). The pack comes with a 32-page storybook featuring brand new stories about the princesses, accompanied by a music disk for each that plays a special song from her movie, plus a selection of popular classical favorites.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Disney Princess Music Player Storybook (Disney Princess) (Hardcover) My preschool aged daughters love the little plastic CDs and their player that comes with this book. In the past year, I am sure that the CDs haven't missed a day of play. Each of the four CDs features about 7 songlets to accompany one of the four featured princesses' stories. The songs are all instrumental - either classical (Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Mozart, Waldteufel, Mendelssohn, Straus and Boccherini) or Disney songs. The player is sturdy and can be carried along everywhere. It's great fun for little girls. The book...well, it's just okay. It features four stories: Belle: A Love Uncovered (about her building a friendship with Beast), Ariel: The Music of Love (about Ariel daydreaming herself into a fantasy wedding), Aurora: A Dream Come True (about Aurora planning her engagement party and decorating the castle for Prince Phillip) and Cinderella: The Best Intentions (about Cinderella planning her wedding the way she thinks it should be done, not Prudence's way). The Belle story is the most solid, the others are vapid. These aren't meant to be plot heavy stories, just some mindless Princess fun. The book is saved by the big colorful pictures of the princesses dressing up and being fabulous - what little girls want to see. But, I'd personally much rather read other Princess stories to my girls - ones with some kind of plot or problem solving with out the aid of a Fairy Godmother. My other issue with this book is that the music doesn't quite sync up. Some of the musical selections are too long and others are too short. I find myself rushing to get through some of the sections to keep with the music and then in other sections waiting. As it stands, the CD player and the book have been used separately for the most part because used together is more of a hassle than anything. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)