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Cursed Princess Club Novel 1

A Most Unusual Princess

Hardcover
5.31"W x 7.38"H x 0.81"D   | 10 oz | 40 per carton
On sale Nov 25, 2025 | 240 Pages | 9781998341849
Age 12-14 years
FOC Oct 27, 2025 | Catalog September 2025

"endearing and hilarious" —SLJ

For fans of Lambcat’s enchanting WEBTOON comes a novel adaptation of the hit WEBTOON series in the vein of Serena Valentino’s Disney Villains series or the Mariko Tamaki’s Lumberjanes novelization. Explore the world of the Cursed Princess Club.


The beloved world of the Cursed Princesses makes the leap from comics to fiction in this new series of novel adaptations based on the hit graphic novels.

Gwendolyn is living the fairy-tale life. She’s a princess. She lives in a castle with her father the king and her loving siblings. Everything is perfect. Or it was.

One day, Gwen overhears a visiting prince commenting on her appearance in the harshest of terms and her world is upended. She’s always known she didn’t look like your typical princess, but her family thinks she’s beautiful. No one has ever been so mean. 

Devastated, Gwen runs into the Haunted Forest and there she meets the Cursed Princesses, a group of outcasts and misfits who band together to show Gwen that she really is a princess. 

Based on the hit WEBTOON and adapted by best-selling author Michelle Knudsen, these novels will take readers deep into the world of the Cursed Princess Club.
Michelle Knudsen is a New York Times best-selling author of more than fifty books for young readers and a writer of speculative short fiction for adults. Her titles include the award-winning picture book Library Lion (Time magazine’s 100 Best Children's Books of All Time) and the novels The Dragon of Trelian (Kids’ Indie Next List; VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers) and Evil Librarian (YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults; Sid Fleischman Humor Award). Her most recent books are the middle grade fantasy novel Into the Wild Magic and the young adult novels Cursed Princess Club: A Most Unusual Princess and Cursed Princess Club: Mirror, Mirror. A lifelong musical theater lover, Michelle is thrilled that two of her books (Library Lion and Evil Librarian) have now been made into musicals! Visit her website for more information and upcoming performance dates. Michelle lives in Brooklyn, New York, with three humans, two cats, and one snake. Find her on Instagram @michelle.knudsen, Bluesky @michelleknudsen.bsky.social, or at michelleknudsen.com.
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About

"endearing and hilarious" —SLJ

For fans of Lambcat’s enchanting WEBTOON comes a novel adaptation of the hit WEBTOON series in the vein of Serena Valentino’s Disney Villains series or the Mariko Tamaki’s Lumberjanes novelization. Explore the world of the Cursed Princess Club.


The beloved world of the Cursed Princesses makes the leap from comics to fiction in this new series of novel adaptations based on the hit graphic novels.

Gwendolyn is living the fairy-tale life. She’s a princess. She lives in a castle with her father the king and her loving siblings. Everything is perfect. Or it was.

One day, Gwen overhears a visiting prince commenting on her appearance in the harshest of terms and her world is upended. She’s always known she didn’t look like your typical princess, but her family thinks she’s beautiful. No one has ever been so mean. 

Devastated, Gwen runs into the Haunted Forest and there she meets the Cursed Princesses, a group of outcasts and misfits who band together to show Gwen that she really is a princess. 

Based on the hit WEBTOON and adapted by best-selling author Michelle Knudsen, these novels will take readers deep into the world of the Cursed Princess Club.

Creators

Michelle Knudsen is a New York Times best-selling author of more than fifty books for young readers and a writer of speculative short fiction for adults. Her titles include the award-winning picture book Library Lion (Time magazine’s 100 Best Children's Books of All Time) and the novels The Dragon of Trelian (Kids’ Indie Next List; VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers) and Evil Librarian (YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults; Sid Fleischman Humor Award). Her most recent books are the middle grade fantasy novel Into the Wild Magic and the young adult novels Cursed Princess Club: A Most Unusual Princess and Cursed Princess Club: Mirror, Mirror. A lifelong musical theater lover, Michelle is thrilled that two of her books (Library Lion and Evil Librarian) have now been made into musicals! Visit her website for more information and upcoming performance dates. Michelle lives in Brooklyn, New York, with three humans, two cats, and one snake. Find her on Instagram @michelle.knudsen, Bluesky @michelleknudsen.bsky.social, or at michelleknudsen.com.
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