This is a fractured fairytale for middle-upper elementary readers. It is the story of a princess who is living as a peasant because her father, the king, decided he wanted to try his hand at wood-cutting. The princess dislikes her new lifestyle and jumps at the opportunity when she finds out that the local prince is looking for a wife. She is surprised to discover that she has a lot of competition for this job as well as an unsympathetic queen conducting the contests between the suitors.
Students will like this story because it is a twist on a classic fairy tale story. Instead of rejoicing when she wins the competition the princess decides to open a pizza place. She is more excited about her own accomplishment of inventing pizza for the cooking competition than she is about getting to marry the prince. The references to other fairy tales throughout the story-like when the competitors must sleep on a stack of mattresses with a pea at the bottom to see whether they are real princesses- will entertain and amuse readers.
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