Book jacket image for The Princess and the (Greedy) Pea by Leigh Hodgkinson

Candlewick

9781536231328

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The Princess and the (Greedy) Pea

The Princess and the (Greedy) Pea is a slyly funny, wonderfully rendered reimagining of children’s classics that will have kids clamoring for a reread—and a giant bowl of green peas, too.

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Review of ‘The Princess and the (Greedy) Pea’

Kids (and whimsical adults) often wonder what it would be like if inanimate objects came to life. Thanks to Leigh Hodgkinson’s The Princess and the (Greedy) Pea (Candlewick, $17.99, 9781536231328), they can marvel at a tiny vegetable who becomes voraciously self-aware.

One moment, the titular pea is just one among many heaped in a beautiful…

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