Toxic Masculinity in The Dashing School For Wayward Princes

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Princeless no extra – The Dashing School for Wayward Princes, a middle-grade graphic novel by Ben Kahn, Jeremy Whitley and Melissa Capriglione.

The Dashing School for Wayward Princes, a middle-grade graphic novel by Ben Kahn of Renegade Rule and Jeremy Whitley of Princeless, drawn by Melissa Capriglione of Basil & Oregano. It tells the story of Leo, a supposed prince who is aware of that, deep down, she’s actually a princess. Despite the varsity’s inflexible and outdated gender norms, Leo and her newfound misfit mates discover the braveness to embrace themselves and stand as much as anybody who says in any other case. Julia McCarthy at Atheneum has acquired world rights to The Dashing School for Wayward Princes and publication is about for the summer time of 2025.

Toxic Masculinity in The Dashing School For Wayward Princes — A web page from *Basil & Oregano* by **Melissa Capriglione**, simply printed, which has no princes in it however does look a bit like a citadel so it would do the job.

Jeremy Whitley tweets “The Dashing School for Wayward Princes is, in its own way, my answer to writing ten years of Princeless. A story about princes who don’t fit the mold and the boarding school that teaches toxic masculinity as a way of life. I can’t wait!” Princeless was the sequence he created that was printed by Action Lab, and ultimately descended into lawsuits, press statements and books being cancelled. Odds are that a few of it will come out in that as effectively.

Ben Kahn and Jeremy Whitey’s agent Moe Ferrara at BookEnds Literary and Melissa Capriglione’s agent Laurel Symonds at KT Literary negotiated the publishing take care of Atheneum.

Atheneum Books is a New York City publishing home established in 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn. Atheneum merged with Charles Scribner’s Sons to grow to be The Scribner Book Company in 1978. The acquisition included Rawson Associates. Macmillan acquired Scribner in 1984. Macmillan was bought by Simon & Schuster in 1994, and it created Atheneum Books for Young Readers as an imprint for kids’s books in the 2000s.

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