Comments on "The Ugly Princess"

Today was a snow day so we did not have school, so I decided to go ahead and tell the story during the day instead of at bedtime because the girls were bored. I think I should have waited though. Goldie, my oldest seemed very distracted. She was eager to see the picture I painted to go with the story, but was less interested in the actual story. She did listen, but it just did not hold her attention as I would have liked. After I told the story I asked her what she thought and she said that she did not like it, but then she started saying all sorts of unrelated things when I asked her why. Later she told me that she did like the story. I asked her what she liked and she told me that she liked that the Princess changed and became nice. I asked her what she didn't like and she said that the Princess threw her shoe at the boy and it is not nice to throw you shoe at someone. I showed her the blog with both stories and pictures up and I was surprised to find out that she remembered the first story and what it was about. I asked her which story she liked best and she said she liked both stories best. I don't know. It is so hard to tell if she is into this or not. I hope she likes it. I don't want to force it on her. I want it to be something that she looks forward to. I guess only time will tell.