One upon a time there was a princess named Gloria Cheng Epstein Takahara de la Garza Champion who had a pet snake and ate a whole cake because there wasn't anybody there to tell her what to do. Until the day the witch next door decided she didn't like Gloria's guitar playing ... A book that explores the princess myth for a new generation of awesome girls. Based on the classic Jonathan Coulton song "The princess who saved herself."--Back cover.