Pineapple Princess
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A sly, hilarious, and bold picture book from debut creator Sabina Hahn about a fierce little girl who commandeers a rotting pineapple for a royal crown—perfect for fans of Eloise and Olivia.
This misunderstood little girl is certain she’s a princess—despite the protests of her family. One afternoon she’s struck by a brilliant idea. Princesses wear crowns and she knows exactly where to get one.
She gets to work—decimating her midday snack until she has a pineapple headpiece fit for royalty. Is she sticky? Yes. Does her tummy feel funny? Yes. Is she very important? Absolutely.
What follows is a power rush of epic proportions and a horde of eager subjects in the form of flies. Unfortunately, her new subjects take direction. . . poorly. As this princess’s kingdom slowly devolves into chaos, both her rule and her pineapple crown begin to fall apart.
Pineapple Princess is a laugh-out-loud funny debut, perfect for every intrepid, young megalomaniac in the making.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A "deeply, deeply misunderstood" child seeks agency and appellation in Hahn's picture book debut. The volume's pale-skinned narrator, who sports a yellow frock and a cloud of brown hair, firmly believes in both their own princesshood and the archly phrased idea that "princesses should do whatever they want. Especially at bedtime." Watercolor vignettes show the purported royal wreaking domestic havoc—red crayon marks the length of the family's walls, and a younger child appears on all fours, hitched up to the protagonist's wagon. The addition of a pineapple crown to the narrator's costume (the fruit's top half dug out and perched on their head), successfully garners subjects—of the housefly variety. Though the group enjoys "picnics and concerts and royal hunts" (Pineapple Princess is shown happily cavorting with the mass of flies), the insects "make poor soldiers, worse cooks, and terrible handmaidens," frustrations that result in a return to defiant form, and a title change, for the protagonist. Though the tongue-in-cheek lines can lean on telling over showing, deftly shadowed spreads, especially of Pineapple Princess's penchant for elaborate, and sticky, tea parties, lend a deliciously insouciant chaos to this careful-what-you-wish telling. Ages 4–8.
