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{{quote|''Over the years, Munsch sometimes got letters from readers who wanted to know why the prince and princess didn't live happily ever after.''
''"I [wrote] back and said, 'It does have a happy ending.' That's the ending it's supposed to have."''
|Robert Munsch, quoted in "[https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/thesundayedition/it-does-have-a-happy-ending It Does Have a Happy Ending]", ''The Sunday Edition'', [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC Radio]], December 13, 2019}}
One of Canadian author Robert Munsch's most famous children's books, ''[[The Paper Bag Princess]]'' was written and published in 1980. The picture book stars [[Princess Classic|Princess Elizabeth]], who's vying to marry the handsome [[Prince Charmless|Prince Ronald]]. Unfortunately, an evil dragon snatches Prince Ronald and incinerates everything around Elizabeth in the process — including her clothes! Undaunted, Elizabeth finds an old paper bag, puts it on and pursues her prince.
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''The Paper Bag Princess'' is often cited as a classic feminist fairy tale for its subversions of gender roles, and is well loved worldwide, but especially in its native Canada. It received an [[Animated Adaptation]] in 1994, which [[Adaptation Expansion|expanded its story considerably]].
We can't provide a copy here, but we can point you at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIPrb-sA6Uo a reading of the story by Robert Munsch himself].
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* [[Censor Steam]]: Used after the dragon incinerates Elizabeth's clothes.
* [[Did Not Get the Girl|Did Not Get the Guy]]: And it's played as a [[Happy Ending]], to boot!
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* [[Fridge Logic]]: The only thing that didn't burn up in Elizabeth's castle was a ''paper'' bag? How did that happen?
* [[Prince Charmless]]: Prince Ronald. Way more obvious in the [[Animated Adaptation]], which establishes him as one of these from the beginning. In the book, it's only at the end that he reveals his true colours.
* [[Princess Classic]]: Princess Elizabeth, at least in the beginning.
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* [["I Want" Song]]: Elizabeth sings a little ditty about her "perfect guy", Prince Ronald, in the beginning.
* [[Magic Skirt]]: That paper bag has a ''really'' high hemline and Elizabeth presumably doesn't have any underwear. (You know, it would really make more sense for her to wear it the other way around with the opening at the top.)
* [[Man
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