ISBN 978-0-913720-86-8
Softcover
64 pages
10 1/2 x 6 1/2"
17 full-color
illustrations
$19.95
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Three Proud
Princesses
Written and illustrated
by Janet Evins Cooper
A tale of privilege transformed by
humility and grace, this charming tale of three princesses and their up-bringing was exquisitely
written and illustrated in 1939 by the author for her children.
Queen Augusta, King Berrybutton’s wife, has raised three daughters—Seraphina,
Angela, and Columbine—with a keen sense of their somewhat embellished royal
ancestry. The three sisters, however, are in for a surprise when they all are
afflicted with common, but unsightly, ailments on the morning of their
collective wedding to three strategically selected princes.
Each prince sets out to find the remedy for his beloved’s ailment,
and in the searching a rich tapestry of extraordinary characters—kings and
queens from distant lands, griffins, dragons, peddlers—and of grand
adventures and moral tales unfolds.
Janet Evins Cooper was born in Atlanta in 1899. Upon graduation from
Radcliffe College with a major in chemistry, she went to Paris to study
sculpture. She subsequently lived in China and the Philippines, and in 1939
wrote and illustrated Three Proud Princesses to provide extra income for
her family. Janet Cooper died in 1943, and the manuscript of the book came close
to being destroyed in a fire. Her son, Robert Cooper, has resurrected the book
as a tribute to her.