Other books of hers include Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky and Dinner at Aunt Connie's House . She is a professor of fine art at the University of California at San Diego. An artist of international stature, she has exhibited her multi-media works at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and in galleries throughout the world. Not all fairy tales contain fairies, although they often contain mythical creatures from goblins and trolls to dragons and witches. Kindness, innocence, and true love are rewarded, while cruelty, greed, and evil are punished.
Justice prevails, but mercy is rare.
Invisible Princess was written because Faith Ringgold's grandchildren wanted to know where the African American princesses were in the fairy tales their grandmother read to them. So she created this story of a slave child's escape from slavery through the intervention of the gods. The princess, although the focus of the story, is not the heroine, her role being virtually passive throughout the story. Instead it is the story of her parents, the slave master, and his daughter. One of my favourite childhood fairy tales included an African princess, along with goblins, enchanted frogs, a wizard, and magical chests full of jewels.