when so many of the posts here are so disheartening...thank you for the lovely post!

**sniff**

You rock!

I love being a girl!

The America I love

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and what a special bride. She picked her up even though she had on wet boots!!

I have something in my eye.....

All are great, but the one where the bride is holding the little kid is a very happy photo.

Scuse me. Got sumpin in my eyes.

in a very ugly world.

The best of America.

in me eye

What a WONDERFUL vignette!

And, I love that the woman on the cover of the little girl's book is white, and yet this precious little girl thought that the black bride was the person from her book...children and their blindness to color....a beautiful thing!!

This is such a beautiful photo, pure joy on both.

The photos are so heartwarming.

1. There is no "princess" in the book this girl is holding.

2. There is no way this 19th century adult British novel is this child's favorite book.

The Woman in White is not about a princess and is not for children.

Also, bless your heart.

How about this headline:

"Bride takes photos with cute little girl"

I very seldom click on stuff like this because it's guaranteed to be saccharine, but I have to admit the last 2 pictures kinda grabbed me.

Now I will return to my usual policy of passing these posts by without comment, leaving those who like them to enjoy them without me.

I just think it could've had an accurate title (like: "Bride takes photos with cute little girl&quot rather than a click-bait style one.

Sweet pictures, for sure.

and thought the bride was the one on the pic.

The headline says this is the child's favorite book (doubtful) and that there is a princess character in the book (there isn't).

The click bait stuff is just a pet peeve of mine - the photos are indeed adorable.

she is a princess or the girl wonders if she is a princess or something else made up to make it fun for the girl.

Also there is no evidence of what you are theorizing in the actual article (which isn't actually an article, but basically Mashable taking a bunch of photos from someone's wedding website and using them to get people to click on their page and see their ads).

1. The little girl is probably around 3. My take would be that she is attracted to the picture on the cover and sees it as a 'Princess'.

2. Of course it could be 'her favorite book'. Not for the story, obviously but for the picture on the cover.

3. The Woman in White is the picture (drawing) on the cover, not the story inside.

All that is irrelevant to the issue at hand. A little girl sees someone who she perceives as a 'Princess' and is enthralled. The bride, on her wedding day no less, stops what she is doing to engage the little girl and 'make her day'.

Lighten up.

There is no actual princess in that book.

What reporting was done to establish that this book was the child's favorite? The person does not seem to have spoken to either the mother or the child. If she did, there are no quotes from either.

The Woman in White is both the drawing on the cover and the title of the story. And the drawing on the cover is not of a princess; it is of one of the characters in that story, a (presumably) mentally unstable woman who insists on wearing white all the time (per the novel). There is no reference to a princess at any point.

I think the photos are cute - I just don't like the click-bait style headline.

Mashable does that a lot - after all, their entire rasison d'etre is to get people to click on its site, and its ads.

But it's a nice moment captured in the photos.

This story is about a child's inner world seemingly "come to life" on the streets of Seattle.

And that lovely bride understood that. So did her mom.

The correct title is indeed, "A Little Girl Meets Her Princess".

Alternate title, "No Race, Just the Good Part of Humanity".

That would have been whimsical and perhaps allowed for artistic license. But, instead the title was very literal and read, "Little girl thinks this bride is the princess from her favorite book..." - none of which is established to be true in the article, and much of which is impossible as there is no princess in that book.

I pretend the negatives I only focus on are relevant also...

But it's a nice moment captured in the photos.

Thank you for your supportive comments.

It is good to be able to at least acknowledge when one is being manipulated, and that sites like Mashable exist to figure out how best to monetize images like this for themselves by generating bogus headlines that will result in maximum clicks.

My grand-daughters (5 and 2) - or rather my 5 year old grand-daughter - bring me books she finds in the grown-up bookcases that thinks look interesting and wants me to read her a story.

Sometimes, it's a history book, and sometimes it's a technical manual - and once a Calculus 1 primer. Those are typically very short stories...
The artist collection books are best.
I recently read to them my Dover Classics copy "The Circus of Dr. Lao" with Artzybascheff drawings...because Amelia saw it and liked the drawings. She's attracted to Art Deco designs right now.
I didn't actually "read" the book, the vignettes to them...way too adult, cynical and dark - and dated.
I made up light stories from the plates and marginal pictures and tried to ensure the picture captions match the story, because Amelia can at least read on a second grade level...
A bit exhausting - and a lot of pages skipped, and now Amelia wants me to "read" it again, so I have to try and remember the stories I spun. And yes, I put a couple princesses in...

Sort of like my Jacqueline in the Beanstalk bed-time story with the weird clothes of Crazy Wizard Uncle Gary, the Moon Queen, and three talking animals that Jacky meets on the way up to the giants - who fart a lot in my stories. I'm constantly being corrected if I don't tell it right.

I would imagine that if the little girl loved the picture in the front of the book, her mom made up a story about a princess to go with it, just as I do with my grandkids.

Haele

None of it is in the article.

There is no "reporting" of any kind. No quotes from the mother, where she talks about how much the book means to the child. Why it's her favorite. How she thinks the woman on the cover is a princess. None of that exists in this article. That is all your own speculation and invention.

If there were a few quotes from the mother actually saying anything along those lines, then that would be different, but there isn't. As it stands, the headline is just BS.

She has not read it or the mom has not read it to her. She is just obsessed with the image.

I'd be curious to read it.

...


still looking.. but holy crap this has taken on a different twist from when I saw it earlier. LOL

Ok.. I found something a bit different from what I remembered but the groom said this:
“I’m pretty sure she just liked the picture on the cover and became attached to it! The book is above my reading level, let alone a toddler’s,” he joked.

So I guess that was the comment I saw - not the mom - sorry about that mixup. I knew I saw a reference to the book being way over her level and it was the pic she liked and why she was carrying it around all the time. I' could swear I saw the mom say something about that somewhere because the mom thought it was funny she 'loved' that book Looks like the more the story is retold the more the book is being assumed it's children's book - good luck the the parents going to find that for their kids LOL.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/little-girl-adorably-mistakes-a-bride-for-a-princess-from-her-favorite-book_us_5942b327e4b01eab7a2c17f0

places in D.C., a little boy gazed up at my DIL and said, his voice trembling in wonder, "Hello, Princess!"

That has, since then, been my standard greeting to her.

Thank you for sharing it.

The picture on the cover of the little girl's copy of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White is James McNeil Whistler's "White Girl", also known as "Symphony in White number 1". This painting has been used by multiple publishers to grace the cover or dust jacket of an edition of The Woman in White.

It may be very significant that Whistler's painting is of a Caucasian woman but the little girl does not seem to notice any difference.

The novel, published in 1860, was an early mystery, would be a difficult read for such a small child. It involves multiple conspiracies and crimes and narrators. But there was a PBS mini-series dramatizing the book recently broadcast.

...face in the final picture is irresistible.

❤️❤️💋💋

What a lovely bride! Such a kind woman to make a little girl's day!

That's why I've been reading, studying and teaching it for 30+ years.


Thanks for sharing this!

turned out to be a real princess.

Thanks, Demmiblue. Love it.

The headline is not a bait and switch! It's probably her mom's book (like someone else said), and because it has the woman in white picture on the cover, the little girl must love staring at the picture because she thinks that woman is a princess. The little girl probably always carries that book around just to stare at the picture. To that little girl, it IS her favorite book, and that little girl sees the bride, and think she's the "princess" that she sees on the cover of the book! Don't look at that book from OUR perspective...look at it from the little girl's perspective!

Absolutely love these pictures, and like I said earlier, even though the woman on the cover is white, and the bride is black, the little girl is blind to color...the way we all should be!

His caption of one of the pics: "My wife and I got married last February, and during the photo shoot this little girl and her mom happened to be walking by. The little girl thought my beautiful wife was the Princess from her favorite book (the one she's holding) #Wedding #bride" They must have had a discussion about the book.

You never know what the wee ones will get attached to. This reminds me of an interview with Ellie Kemper (The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) on The Late Show with Seth Meyers about her son's fascination with an Allison Williams magazine cover:

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

Why on earth would this girl think that?

Is "princess" really the default thought that a little girl has when seeing a bride or a woman dressed in white?

based on other things they might have seen. maybe a cartoon or something .

Probably true.

Look at that little face! Almost like she met Mrs. Santa!

Gorgeous bride, too. She does look like a princess. And she acts like one, too (in the Kate Middleton/Princess Diana tradition).

So sweet!!!

It was so kind of the bride to indulge the little girl (although who could resist?).

So sweet!