Constance – as many little girls in the world, I suppose – is absolutely mad about Princess Poppy. Her favorite book is from The Pictures Books collection (not all translated into Portuguese yet) “The Wedding”.
I guess I’ve read that book thousands of times at bed time hour but she insists over and over again. I don’t know why she’s so fascinated by this story in particularly but she really is… I think is because Poppy doesn’t lie about her cousin’s dress when she accidentally ruins it. The fact that she stands for the truth makes her a real princess and Constance – who feels really embarrassed for Poppy’s accident – wants to be a princess like Poppy, which is the same to say a little girl who doesn’t lie.
Each time I begin to read a Poppy story Constance reassures Poppy character by saying: “Poppy I didn’t lie to mummy.” And Poppy – with my voice, of course – says to her: “Well done, Constance. That’s why you are a real princess like me.”
For about two months I read to Constance the eight books of Poppy collection. Then, I found the Poppy homepage with many activities and delicious games with flowers and baskets. She went nuts!
Constance is only three years old. She will be four next February. So my daughter is still very young to the Poppy Young Fiction Collection. Although we already have done one of the Activities Books: “On Barley Farm”. I think the others are too advanced for her.
Until now, the Poppy effect has been great! She doesn’t lie in order to always be a real princess, she wants to wear princess dresses at home and play with me as her mummy queen and she knows that she is not good in doing everything at once. Like Poppy she wanted to have ballet lessons, horse riding lessons and like Poppy’s friend Melody, she even wanted to learn how to play piano. At this moment, the Poppy effect was disturbing. So I told her: “You already have swimming lessons. First, you learn how to swim and then you will learn how to dance or how to ride a pony. You can’t do all at once. You’re just a baby and babies need time to do those things”.
She accepted my explanation with some distress. So, in order to calm her I decided to become her ballet teacher at home. She already has a ballerina costume and we use that and I choose to teach her listening to Borodin’s Prince Igor. At first, Constance was really excited but after some artistic jumps and beautiful pas de deux she said: “Mummy, I don’t like this music. It scares me…” I laugh but maybe she is right. Next time, I’ll try Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. I think that the Sugar Plum Fairy melody is absolutely marvelous!
So, we both are really grateful to Janey Jones, the author of Princess Poppy, to inspire children and their mums in getting fun out of live! Thanks so much!!!
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