Princess Pigtoria and the Pea by Pamela Duncan Edwards

Princess Pigtoria and the Pea Reviews

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  Liz

  Princess Pigtoria sets out to find a Prince. After meeting Prince Proudfoot, Pigtoria sends the night in one of the castle parlors. After ordering pizza and dancing the polka, Pigtoria doesn't sleep well. Proudfoot assumes Pigtoria is a proper princess because of the pea he hid under her pillow. Boy was he wrong? Imagine his surprise when Pigtoria chooses someone else.
  
  "Princess Pigtoria And The Pea" is appropriate for ages 5+ (Grades K+).
  
  Playing off an alliteration with the letter P, this book is a tongue twister. Pigtoria wants to find a Prince but she isn't sure Prince Proudfoot is the right pig for her. Instead, the story takes a turn when she decides she likes "Percy the Pizza delivering pig" better. Pigtoria and Percy marry. Prince Proudfoot ends up engaged to the parlor maid. This book is wacky, crazy, tongue-twisting, and bizarre.
  
  I don't think this is a good book for young children to attempt, yet I do think this book is a perfect, fun book to read to them. The alliteration can be hard to continue at times. I can only assume that most young readers will become frustrated and annoyed by this. Aside from that, the illustrations are bright, the characters are well defined. In my opinion, this book was entertaining but I don't think I will read it again.
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  Heather McC

  A perfectly paced parable where Princess Pigtoria ponders partnership and pizza toppings.
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  Bonnie Lambourn

  Another book on my search for good picture books with alliteration as an underlying concept, element or structure. I was surprised to find this one so much fun I had to give it a 5 rating! I was initially wondering if she was only after the Prince Pig's money, though appreciated how the wording made it that she was looking for a partner who might care to help her, so of course I loved the way Pigtoria refused his approval in the end, and married the pizza pig! What was surprisingly subversive for a book from 2002, how the Prince ended up intermarrying a chicken! I SO wanted to see into that baby carriage! I wonder how that part reads today to others, though. The story included LOADS of P words, yet for me it flowed and never felt forced. Fair warning - I watched a read-aloud of this book on youtube, and the reader did a flawless job, yet at the end said, "whew, that was a lot of P's."
  
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  McKenzie Richardson

   
  A very funny retelling of "The Princess and the Pea" with a much more satisfying ending.
  I love the use of many "p" words in the text and pictures. A great way for young readers to work on initial sounds and vocabulary words.
  This is a very silly book, but I really liked the character of Princess Pigtoria. Her reaction to finding out the prince's plan was priceless. Oops... there I go with the "p" words.
  This book is contagiously humorous.
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  Jen

  What's a princess to do when she's tested with a bad night's sleep?
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  Laura

  This is the kind of book that would have been seen as amazing ten years ago, but sadly it doesn’t quite stand up to the test of time.
  
  What I liked: I thought the illustrations were hilarious and I liked the P alliteration throughout. It’s also a fun te-telling of a classic folktale.
  
  What I disliked: Princess Pigtoria is poor and decides that the only way to get out of this conundrum is to marry someone...from a personal ad. Yikes! After the Princess turns down the Princess, the he becomes so depressed the Parlor Maid marries him out of pity. Then after the parlor maid marries him, he instantly becomes a more likable pig. Yikes.
  
  This isn’t a hard no from me, but with other options it’s definitely not a top pick either.
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  Stephanie

  BCFL borrow, exchanged from “Race You to Bed” (bunny book) for this one to take home as her “keeper” book. Read to A at BCFL outside Roxy Reader room in the hallway where the book selection was. She LOVED it!!! It was a wonderful parody!!!
  
  6/1/19: Read to herself when she got home, she loved it so much! <3
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  Set

  Sweet Jesus, Mary and Joseph, this is the most feminist children's book I've read all year. The prince is a "male chauvinistic pig". How cynical do you have to be against men to write this book? Whoever wrote this obviously hates men.
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  Lynda

  A pig version of the princess and the pea. My daughter thought this was very funny and I enjoyed the alliteration.
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  MrsE5thgrade

  Princess Pigtoria and the Pea is about royal pigs. Pigtoria is a pig princess. Princess Pigtoria and the Pea by Pamela Duncan Edwards teaches us to work together. The story shows this through Pigtoria failing by herself, when Pigtoria wants to work with a prince on her palace, and finally when she works with the right person on her house and they succeed.
  
  One way the story teaches us to work together is through Pigtoria trying to work by herself and failing. In the story it says, “Her palace had peeling paint and collapsing plaster. She planted pansies and petunias. She swept and she polished. ‘It’s hopeless,’ she protested.” This shows Pigtoria working by herself and saying “It’s hopeless.” Pigtoria is having a lot of trouble working by herself. Her palace is crumbling, falling apart and Pigtoria is trying to fix it all by herself. Clearly she is not getting any where. The story is telling us that if Pigtoria keeps working by herself it will be hopeless.
  
  The story teaches us to work together. The story shows this when Pigtoria wants to work with a prince on her palace. In the story it says, “If I married a prince, pondered Pigtoria, perhaps he would help me make my palace pretty again.” I think that the author is trying to tell us that Pigtoria is realizing that if she works together with someone on her palace it will turn out a lot better then when she works by herself. Pigtoria departs for Porksville where she is going to meet a prince. (It turns out that the prince wasn’t a good choice. The prince was rude and impolite.)
  
  The story teaches us to work together. The story shows this through Pigtoria working on her palace with the right person. Instead of the prince, Pigtoria works with a kind and caring pig. “​They​​ ​painted​ ​Pigtoria’s​ ​palace...’’ “They’’ meaning Pigtoria and the right pig. When Pigtoria worked with this pig she succeeded in making her palace pretty again!
  
  
  This story teaches me that you have to work together, and with the right person too! People need to work together just like Pigtoria did. Working together is a very important skill in life! I hope you learned that working together is the key to success!
  
  
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  Dena McMurdie

  Prepare for a parade of the letter P! Princess Pigtoria sets off on the adventure of the Princess and the Pea that uses every possible P word you can think of.
  
  It is an adorable picture book about a pig that needs to marry someone to help her fix up her palace. But this story adds a pleasant twist to the traditional tale. The prince turns out to be not so charming, and the pizza pig starts looking pretty perfect.
  
  There were a few instances that I thought the use of a P word made a sentence rather awkward. However, the story is very cute and fun to read. It became one of my daughter's "lovey" books where she dragged it around the house with her, read it 400 times a day, slept with it, ate with it, etc. Her favorite part was when Pigtoria tells Prince Proudfoot that she doesn't like him!
  
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  Karen

  Spoiler alert
  Do we really want to teach our children to marry someone in order to gain financial wealth?! The pig princess answered an ad to marry a pig prince in order to obtain funds to fix her palace. What century are we in?!
  And then there's the part of the princess spending the night in the prince's palace without seemingly any "adults" present. Yes, she slept in her own bed, but I'm not a fan of mixed gender sleepovers, especially without supervision. Ok, reading too much into it? Perhaps. But books, television, etc. do influence our children.
  As for the hen marrying the prince, I'm all in favor of mixed marriages.
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  Trish

  The team that brought us Four Fearless Foxes and Fosdyke and Some Smug Slug is back! Princess Pigtoria is very poor, so she proceeds to pursue Prince Proudfoot, who is looking for a perfect princess. Things are complicated by the appearance of Percy-the-Pizza-Pig, who delivers Pigtoria’s pizza. The Princess invites Prince Proudfoot’s staff to join her in polishing off the pizza, “and everyone performed the polka until they were pooped.” You’ll have to peruse the pages personally to find out the rest of the plot, but I guarantee it’ll be peppier than a pitcher of pineapple punch.
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  Tami

  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.
  
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  Josie B.

  Last fall I read this to a group of kindergarteners at an outreach, and for months afterwards, they asked for Piggy to visit again. Granted, I introduced the book with a pig puppet in a tiara and tutu. I love the alliteration in this book as well as the twist it puts on the familiar fairy tale. The princess marries the kind and generous pizza delivery pig and they open their own business. Alliteration is another way to reinforce letter knowledge, one of the six early literacy skills that children need in order to learn to read.
  
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  Hannah Morrison

  I really did not like this book all that much. The book does allow students to play with the "p" sound and "p" words, which would make it a fabulous tool for students learning sounds. On a more personal level, books about female princesses looking for male princes (or vice versa) are rather boring and draining to read. Princess Pigtoria is a cute book that probably appeals to children because it is very silly, but I would think hard before including it in class.
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  Lorrie L. Birchall

  This is a nice mentor book for teaching kids about alliteration. It is a sweet and humorous alliterative adaption of the Princess and the Pea featuring the letter P. Pigtoria is a poor princess who plans to go to Porksville to pick a prince. The pompous Prince Proudfoot proposes, but Princess Pigtoria picks Percy-the Pizza-Pig and opens up a profitable pizzeria instead. You may get a bit tongue-tied reading it, but kids will certainly understand the concept of alliteration.
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  Libby

  In the space of about 3 weeks, I have encountered 2 different books that take a fairy tale (or several) and spin it. Both with pigs. And they were both good. Who knew?!
  
  Princess Pigtoria goes looking to get married for financial reasons, but ends up marrying for love (which is good, because the prince she encounters is a real loser). A cute revision of The Princess and the Pea. My kids enjoyed it, too.
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  Ellen

  A fun take on the original fairy tale filled with alliteration with the letter P. Princess Pigtoria's castle is falling down and hopes that a prince she reads about in the want ads will marry her and fix up her home. Instread, she marries a pizza pig and the open a pizza place and live happily ever after.
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  Caroline Barnett

  Such a cute book, very colorful. I have used this book to work with words that start with "p" after reading the book to a class we made a class list of all of the "p" words we could think of. In this Kindergarten class they had a magic letter each week, and this was a great book for the magic letter "p"
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  Class 238

  When i read this book it was kind of hard to understand the book a little bit because wen the king sade that he put a pea under here pillows she was mad because wen he put the pea under the pillows he dirent whant to tell here so you should read this book to know a little bit about this book a little more.
  
  Kristaliz