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Disney Princess A Jewel Story
Tiana The Stolen Jewel
It's just another ordinary day for Tiana--until a flamingo lands in her kitchen! Soon Tiana is off on an adventure through the bayou and all over New Orleans in search of a magic pearl stolen from Mama Odie. With full-color spot art and full-page illustrations throughout, older Princess fans are sure to love this jewel-themed chapter book.
93 pages, Paperback
First published September 17, 2013
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Calliope Glass
80 books25 followersCalliope Glass is an editor and the writer of several popular titles for licenses like Star Wars, Marvel, and the Disney Princesses. She lives in New York City with her family.
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August 18, 2023
Surprisingly we found this whole series at the thrift bookstore and my niece chose to get it. As a result I was tasked with getting the chance to read all the books to see how well they would stand up - do they stand closer to Classic Disney or are they capitalist woke Disney? Or maybe just capitalist Disney trying to get a bit of a mystery theme going on....
First of all some statistics for the whole series. There are included only eight books in this series with a mix of Disney princesses with some older ones and some rather newer ones combined together - Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Tiana, Merida and Rapunzel. Out of the eight shown on the box only Cinderella, Merida and Rapunzel are wearing the same dresses on the covers of their books while the other princesses are in different gowns. Meanwhile Tiana and Aurora are both in dresses that I have never seen in any of their canons whether their animated films or the Princess brand. Furthermore there is a listing on the box of the books, which is the way that I chose to read these books, but they can be truthfully read in any order as the reader may wish although I would honestly say Rapunzel's story should be last since that was the one that least interested me.
Each of the books has been illustrated with brightly colored full-page illustrations that are based off their animated films while those like Merida and Rapunzel had to be made into cartoons with Merida pretty much making the cut while Rapunzel didn't fare so well in my opinion.
And then a last statistic for the series, which rather confused me, is that the majority of these stories take place after the films in which these characters appear. Unfortunately the only exceptions to this rule seems to be Belle as her story is meant to take place some time shortly after she has moved into the castle as Beast's prisoner and Rapunzel as her story is meant to take place after she escaped the tower and went through the village but just before the lanterns were released thus making their stories seem more like fan-fic episodes.
I wasn't quite too sure about how this book would turn out since I haven't really grown up with Tiana or her film. The latter when I did watch it was a rather decent movie in contrast to some of the releases today but I am also less of a movie person now that I used to be.
The dress that Tiana is wearing I know isn't part of the canon of the films or the Disney brand that I know of so that was interesting to me while she seemed to stick to her work clothes throughout the book.
But what really stood out is this is one of those girl boss type of books. Although married, Naveen appears to be less apt than he was in the movie while cannot be trusted to do anything right besides sweet talk, compliment and play music. Furthermore he also seems to have less idea of the parties going on when that was his role to be a party boy in the original film. At the same time not only is Tiana given to be super competent and independent but her friend Lottie also seems to be able to step-up as a lady knight in waiting thus helping when Naveen is a fumbling fool.
Even with the slightly woke undertone for this story though it was decently told and also rather easily guessable in its mystery format but still fun. I can definitely see young Princess fans enjoying this sweet story as a cute quick read.
First of all some statistics for the whole series. There are included only eight books in this series with a mix of Disney princesses with some older ones and some rather newer ones combined together - Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Tiana, Merida and Rapunzel. Out of the eight shown on the box only Cinderella, Merida and Rapunzel are wearing the same dresses on the covers of their books while the other princesses are in different gowns. Meanwhile Tiana and Aurora are both in dresses that I have never seen in any of their canons whether their animated films or the Princess brand. Furthermore there is a listing on the box of the books, which is the way that I chose to read these books, but they can be truthfully read in any order as the reader may wish although I would honestly say Rapunzel's story should be last since that was the one that least interested me.
Each of the books has been illustrated with brightly colored full-page illustrations that are based off their animated films while those like Merida and Rapunzel had to be made into cartoons with Merida pretty much making the cut while Rapunzel didn't fare so well in my opinion.
And then a last statistic for the series, which rather confused me, is that the majority of these stories take place after the films in which these characters appear. Unfortunately the only exceptions to this rule seems to be Belle as her story is meant to take place some time shortly after she has moved into the castle as Beast's prisoner and Rapunzel as her story is meant to take place after she escaped the tower and went through the village but just before the lanterns were released thus making their stories seem more like fan-fic episodes.
I wasn't quite too sure about how this book would turn out since I haven't really grown up with Tiana or her film. The latter when I did watch it was a rather decent movie in contrast to some of the releases today but I am also less of a movie person now that I used to be.
The dress that Tiana is wearing I know isn't part of the canon of the films or the Disney brand that I know of so that was interesting to me while she seemed to stick to her work clothes throughout the book.
But what really stood out is this is one of those girl boss type of books. Although married, Naveen appears to be less apt than he was in the movie while cannot be trusted to do anything right besides sweet talk, compliment and play music. Furthermore he also seems to have less idea of the parties going on when that was his role to be a party boy in the original film. At the same time not only is Tiana given to be super competent and independent but her friend Lottie also seems to be able to step-up as a lady knight in waiting thus helping when Naveen is a fumbling fool.
Even with the slightly woke undertone for this story though it was decently told and also rather easily guessable in its mystery format but still fun. I can definitely see young Princess fans enjoying this sweet story as a cute quick read.
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August 14, 2020
Enjoyable
Read this book with my 9 year old daughter. She enjoyed it!. Good storyline and fun to read out loud
Read this book with my 9 year old daughter. She enjoyed it!. Good storyline and fun to read out loud
October 25, 2019
Harry Potter and the prisoner release few hours later today I had been using your day so you are in town on it now but if they want I'm just getting off the
It is the most important part time I get back on a few things in this article everyone who were killed it in
It is the most important part time I get back on a few things in this article everyone who were killed it in
January 28, 2021
Lovely cute story.
January 15, 2023
I was good O would have given it a 4/5 but it was just how pretty Charlotte was and how smart she is as well:)
February 10, 2025
Such a cute and fun short story about Tiana's Palace that took place after the movie.
February 11, 2025
It's such a cute and fun short story about Tiana's Palace that took place after the movie.
May 26, 2021
Rating: 4.8 stars. A fun short story about Tiana's story after the movie. Tiana is one of my two favorite Disney Princesses, so I of course enjoyed her new story in this book.
April 6, 2018
Once again Tiana, Naveen, Louis, Charlotte, and company kept my nephew and I entertained as we navigated the disappearance of the missing jewel and met some new friends on the way!
The illustrations are gorgeous, the story is easy to follow, and kept us laughing. Disney has done it once again!
The illustrations are gorgeous, the story is easy to follow, and kept us laughing. Disney has done it once again!
February 25, 2014
mama odie's magic pearl is stolen so Tiana has to find the pearl and the pearl has a sister so when they come close to each other they glow.Tiana finds the pearl mama odie's arch enemy stole it.
February 23, 2014
I enjoyed reading this to my little one and she enjoyed the color illustrations.
June 28, 2016
Fun to read with my daughter.
July 9, 2015
mama odis magic pearl was lost she needs to find the other one so she sends tiana to look for it so they have a pearl party finally she finds the pearl.
October 4, 2022
Super cute.
March 13, 2023
Fun tale featuring Princess Tiana and friends, where they do a favor for Mama Odie and retrieve e her stolen pearl.
August 18, 2024
An entertaining Disney book.
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