"This is a Little Princess"
She had chosen a Disney princess book for me to read to her, but we were mostly just talking our way through the pages. I was pretty certain she hadn't seen the movie, but she nevertheless seemed to know a lot about the characters and the story. I turned a page and she remarked, "That's a little Snow White."
"Yes, but she's bigger than the dwarfs."
"They're little too. On the other page they were big."
We flipped back to find the same characters, but framed to appear closer to the reader. I said, "Oh, that Snow White isn't little, she's just farther away."
She furrowed her brows at the picture for a moment, then said, "She is little."
"Yes, she looks smaller because she's farther away. This one looks bigger because she's so close."
The girl looked at me like I was crazy. "This," she said CONTINUE READING: Teacher Tom: "This is a Little Princess"
