The Books

The Paper Princess

by Elisa Kleven

One Potato Review

Flat Stanley in search of a hairdo. This reader is admittedly not mesmerized by princesses, but the paper cut-out here seems eager to get on with things, and generally brush shoulders with the hoi polloi – “I’ll finish myself!” she calls out to the girl who halfway made her. What a lot of hoi polloi there is too, and cherry blossoms and Ferris wheels and seaside towns with sailboats and bridges and busy, different families collaged into every window. The effect is like staring for too long into a paper weight. Hypnotic, with or without the fluttering message underneath.