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The Rapping Princess
Hannah Lee and Allen Fatimaharan
(Faber & Faber)
The Rapping Princess
£6.99
Princess Shiloh is nothing like her sisters. Not only can Shaya scat and hum ‘to every beat’ but Sade has a ‘sweet soprano’ while ‘Adanna belts songs and she wants to sing along’. However, it seems that Shiloh is ‘just not meant to sing’.
Although the doctor says there are no ‘blocks‘ to her singing, while ‘the best vocal coach’ suggests that ‘talent can’t be taught’. What is Princess Shiloh to do? Being a princess is a ‘tough job‘ anyways, but this is a problem that she is unable to solve.
Might it be, however, that the impulses she feels at the sounds of visiting princes battling to see who might rap best, offer an answer? Could it be that her ‘dip, flip and rhyme‘ is so ‘sublime‘ as to mean that Princess Shiloh ‘should stick to rapping’. It seems that every time she practises, Shiloh wants to practise more! She does love ‘to freestyle over a handmade beat, unleashing lyrics to the tapping of her feet’.
Hannah Lee delighted us with My Hair. Yet again she has created a story of immediacy, hope and inspiration. Furthermore, Allen Fatimaharan’s pictures are brilliant, direct and so alive with action and meaning.
Bookwagon loves The Rapping Princess. We suggest that this picture book is perfect for bedtime reading, reciting, sharing and thereafter enjoying in school, too.
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