#Royal diarie books series

May 2019: Sŏndŏk: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, 595 A.D.April 2019: Lady of Ch’iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China, 531 A.D.March 2019: Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C.Click on the princess’ name to learn a bit more about them! (They’re kind of hard to find, but I was able to get the missing books from my collection used via Amazon! You just have to get crafty – make sure you browse all of the used options & you’ll definitely find some cheap ones). Below is my schedule but I’ll be updating it as I go! If you want to read along with me, I’m so happy to have you. Over the next 20 months, I’m going to read (at least) one diary a month, starting chronologically. It’ll be interesting to see if or how my life has changed at the end of this project. I like the feel of something to return to month after month.

And sharing what I feel with you! Part reread, part review, part journal entry.Īlso, I like a long project. Thinking about how they reflect upon my life – then and now.

So, I’ll be reading each one and keeping my own (not so royal) diary as I go along. I don’t think I read all 20 as a kid (though I’m sure I read at least 14). I learned about young women who struck out on their own – whether because they chose to or because circumstance demanded it.Īnd I’m interested to see how it feels now. I learned from Eleanor that drinking unclean water can lead to serious health problems (after I spent two weeks trying to tell my mom that I thought I had a worm in my brain until she told me that was unlikely, as I lived in suburban New Jersey). I learned from Marie Antoinette what “dauphin” means. I learned about cultures of royalty all across the world. These are the books that got my hooked on historical fiction. I’d copy the entries down into my own diary as if my life was just like theirs.

#Royal diarie books series

The Royal Diaries series was a favorite of mine – I constantly read and reread these pieces of historical fiction as a child. Get me talking about anything from American Girl Dolls to Country Mouse and City Mouse to Twister and I won’t stop. The best thing of all was getting up every day and trying to crawl into people’s heads-from a Pilgrim girl to a Princess.Scrunchies and braids and middle grade – oh, my! Over the next 20 months, I’ll be indulging my inner princess and reliving one of my favorite series: The Royal Diaries, from Scholastic Press. I could delve into a character like Elizabeth Tudor and try and imagine how she would feel when her father often banished her from the court to live in a lonely castle with her governess. I would not give happily ever after endings when they did not really happen but I could interpret how that person might feel. And there was the added bonus since it was to be fiction I could fill in the gaps that history books and primary source material might leave out. These books were based on people who had really lived-Princesses like Elizabeth Tudor, Marie Antoinette, Mary Queen of Scots, but they kept fictional diaries.įor me both these series were the chance of a lifetime as a writer for it combined two things I love-history and doing research. The Royal Diaries were slightly different from the Dear America ones. What was life like on the Mayflower? Did she find a best friend? What were the storms like? Did she throw up? Was she frightened? How did she feel in this new land? Royal Diaries: Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India, 1627 by Kathryn Lasky Hardcover Book Condition: Near Fine Jacket Condition: No dust jacket Category. So I could try and imagine how a little pilgrim girl felt when she left to cross the Atlantic Ocean to come to America. In the Dear America series the diaries were based on fictional people who lived through significant events in American history. When my publisher came up with the idea for the Dear America and the Royal Diaries I was thrilled.