The Princess and the (Greedy) Pea

This picture book offers a delightful and humorous mash-up of two classic tales: "The Princess and the Pea" and "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." A tiny green pea, with an enormous appetite, begins by swallowing a sprout and proceeds to consume an entire dinner, including the table it's served on. Its ever-growing size creates a rather lumpy situation for a princess trying to sleep. With bouncy, cumulative verse and bold, detailed illustrations, this cautionary tale playfully explores themes of greed and consequences, making it a perfect read-aloud for young children aged 4-8.

A gluttonous pea runs afoul of a very hungry princess in this playful cautionary tale inspired by a favorite cumulative rhyme and a classic fairy tale. There was a green pea who swallowed a sprout. Without a doubt, a brussels sprout. What's that about? This little pea is hungry! So hungry it swallows a sprout, slurps up some soup, munches the bread, gobbles the cake, noshes the pickle, guzzles the cheese, drinks all the tea, and even chomps down the table it's all served on. After all that, it needs to sleep. But whose dinner did it steal? And whose mattress is the now-humungous pea resting under? With bold, delightfully detailed illustrations and a bouncy verse perfect for reading aloud, this wickedly funny mash-up of "The Princess and the Pea" and "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" will have little listeners clamoring for multiple helpings.