She and other figures and props are neatly rendered against vibrantly colored, thickly textured backgrounds, a contrast that reinforces the interplay between imagination and reality in the story.
Marie, who knows she is a princess even though she does not look it, finds a magical red umbrella that transports her to an enchanted world. There Marie meets a king and queen, distracts a royal lion, sails in a paper boat, then heads homeward over a path of ""boxes full of adventures she'd never even dreamed of."" German author/artist Szekessy's fluid prose propels Marie's hectic progress through Boxland, maintaining a light humor all the way to the end, when ""even a princess has to get home on time."" Marie is shown as squat, with the proportions of a gnome. Buy Princess in Boxland by Tanja Szekessy at Mighty Ape NZ. Umbrella in hand, the girl visits Boxland, a place filled with cardboard boxes of all shapes and sizes, some piled high with apples or worn as clothing, others standing empty, inviting and alluring.
Marie may not look like a fairy-tale princess, but she knows she is. Marie knows she is a princess because of the ""unusual things that happened to her,"" and when she sees a picture of a red umbrella on the outside of a box, another escapade begins. Children know the imaginative possibilities to be found in an empty cardboard carton.
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