Princess Pigtoria and the Pea

by Pamela Duncan Edwards

Book Overview

Bestselling author Pamela Duncan Edwards and illustrator Henry Cole team up for an alliterative fractured fairy tale take on "The Princessand the Pea", complete with pizza parties, a pompous prince,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545093732
• ISBN13: 9780545093736
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Tells of a princess' pigsty

Pamela Duncan Edwards' PRINCESS PIGTORIA AND THE PEA receives Henry Cole's fun drawings and tells of a princess' pigsty. Pigtoria's penniless - but if the prince proposes, she could make her palace picturesque again.

Princess Pigtoria and the Pea

Princess Pigtoria is in trouble. Her palace is in dire need of some maintenance but she can't do the work herself. Then, she sees an advertisement from a prince looking for a princess to marry. Pigtoria decides this might be the answer to her predicament. Of course, we know from the Princess and the Pea that the only way to tell a real princess is the "pea test". Well, Pigtoria experiences her own version of this test. She does so, in very typical Pigtoria style. A cute story, a little lesson for us all, and the most P words I've ever read in one place.

Princess & Pea Rhyming P words

Haha! //Princess Pigtoria and the Pea// is a creative and one-of-a-kind rhyming storybook. It is all about the rhyming "P" words that make up a very adorable read-aloud book that is sure to make you laugh. There is a twist to the story that sends a moral message to the audience. Princess Pigtoria initially was looking for her prince charming to help her out with her dilapidated palace. She ventured to Porkville to find Prince Proudfoot. Prince Proudfoot was indeed proud. He pounded on Princess Pigtoria and proclaimed her poor punctuality. Hmm, Prince Proudfoot isn't polite! Like the original //Princess and the Pea//, the picky and pompous Prince Proudfoot wanted to find a perfect and proper partner. He put a pea in the bottom pile of pillows to see if Princess Pigtoria is prickled by it. Meanwhile, Princess Pigtoria was exhausted and hungry from the long walking day. She picked up the phone book and purchased a pizza with plenty of peppers, pickles, poppy seeds, peanuts, and parmesan cheese. Surprisingly, she passed on the pepperoni! Percy the pizza man popped up at the door very promptly. Does Princess Pigtoria finally become Prince Proudfoot's partner? Reviewed by Sophie Masri

Interesting angle on the Princess and the Pea

We had a school book fair today, and I got to attend (twice!) with my two nieces. Don't ask me how much I spent, it's a little blush-worthy. I had already vetoed several books my older niece picked out (no TV books, no sticker books, no poster books, and no toys which aren't EVEN books!) so even though I wasn't feeling very hopeful about this one (The Princess and the Pea has always been among my least-favorite fairy tales) I smiled and burst out with a happy "Sure, why not!" about it. I was pleasantly surprised when I got this book home and had a chance to look at it. This is a very alliterative book (lots of use of the letter P) about impoverished Princess Pigtoria, who thought she might hit it off with the Prince and fix up her falling down castle. He's a bit of an ass, actually, and when she finds out about the pea trick she does what I've always wanted the sappy princess to do in this story - reads him the riot act and dumps him from the pizza boy! So she and the pizza boy get rich selling pizza, and the prince eventually marries the parlor maid and becomes a reformed citizen. Okay, so it's sillier than it needs to be and the moral is a little hamfisted. (Pun intentional, of course.) It's still better than I thought.