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K-3
"I wanna be a pretty princess!" A real princess overhears a girl's wish and shows her the ropes, which include a painful hairstyle, a binding corset, and an interminable wait for a prince ("Yawn!"). The anime-style art, while a bit synthetic-looking, captures the absurdity of these rules, which the girl ultimately rewrites (e.g., she deletes the "gracefully" in "Dance gracefully").