What is it about little girls and princesses? Having grown up during the heyday of feminism, I was disinclined to all that was girly, pink, cloying, candy colored. It seemed to me that the cult of ...

I have a little girl, almost 5, and one night, after attempting to read her to sleep, we were lying awake on the pink, princess bed drifting somewhere between Madeline's "old house in Paris" and ...