Like many little girls, Princess Cupcake Jones has a favorite article of clothing–her tutu.  One day it goes missing and Princess Cupcake Jones searches everywhere and finds lots of lost things, but not her tutu.  She cleans her room–mops, dusts, polishes–and still cannot find it.  But as she looks up she sees it stuck on the ceiling fan where it landed when she took it off and threw it the night before.  All is well.  The fact that the main character is African-American fills a gap in children’s picture book collections.  However, what I’m confused about is the ‘princess’ part–many parents call their daughters princess, but moms don’t go around wearing tiara’s–is she really supposed to be a real princess?  Would a real princess clean her room while chefs are in the palace kitchen cooking?  I wish she was just her parents’ princess and not a real princess, then maybe kids could relate better.