A strange little side quest
A small trivia drop for Color Me Princess: In 18th-century America, upper-class men as well as women wore make-up, a reminder that beauty customs have never been as fixed as they can seem. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. The screen is modern; the urge to test skill, pattern and timing definitely is not.