Mia’s got a brand-new diary—and a dream: joining Greenpeace “to save the baby seals.” But her mom is dating her algebra teacher, her crush barely knows she exists, and her dad’s just informed her that she must move to Genovia to learn to be a princess. It’s been decades since the 2000 release of The Princess Diaries and the 2001 Disney film adaptation, and the story’s late 1990s setting shines through. Illustrator Crandall depicts the fashions, the landline phones, and the chunky desktop PCs—with no social media or celebrity gossip blogs in sight. Yet the fairy tale doesn’t feel dated—or no more so than any story wherein the protagonist discovers she’s the hereditary princess of a small European country. The full-color, manga-influenced art depicts an abbreviated version of Mia’s torments as her Grandmère attempts to mold her into a stylized, femme ideal of a princess. Mia’s best friend, Lilly Moscovitz, wholly disapproves of her new aesthetic on social and political grounds. Mia takes the opportunity to befriend classmate Tina Hakim Baba (one of the few characters who isn’t white). She also grows much closer to Lilly’s brother, Michael, who “knows HTML” and “looks really good without a shirt.” This graphic novel adds nothing new but still solidly communicates the charm and humor of the original.