Cursed Princess Club: A Most Unusual Princess

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 the New York Times best-selling author of more than fifty books for children and young adults, including the award-winning picture book Library Lion, which was selected by Time magazine as one of the 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time. Her novels include The Dragon of Trelian (VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers) and Evil Librarian (YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults; Sid Fleischman Award for Humor). Michelle also sometimes writes short fiction for adults and was a 2024 BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) finalist for the audio version of her short story ＂The Pigeon.＂ Her most recent title is the picture book Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, and her next book will be the middle grade fantasy novel, INTO THE WILD MAGIC (Candlewick Press, August 2025). Michelle teaches writing in Lesley University’s low-residency MFA program. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with three humans, two cats, and one snake.