The Princess and the Peas and Carrotts by Harriet Ziefert

The Princess and the Peas and Carrots by Harriet Ziefert

*Review copy of this book was viewed from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review*

As her parents learn to how manage their daughter’s persnickety ways, a little girl also comes to understand the royal reason that she is so fussy.

This princess-y, picky-particular girl will strike a strong chord of recognition. Every kid has some version of “I can’t eat those peas because they’re touching the carrots!” Right?

This is a story about a picky little girl that refuses to eat her dinner so she’s sent to room.  While in there, she makes an even bigger mess, she’ll show them.  As she stumbles over a copy of The Princess and the Pea she begins to understand why she acts like she does, now if she can convince her parents that she really is a princess too everything will be ok.

 I had mixed feelings about this book.  Lilly is a very picky eater and sometimes it takes an act of congress to get her to eat her dinner.  However, we don’t have the option of putting her to bed without food because she has Cystic Fibrosis and has to eat.  I can understand how frustrated the parents got with the little girl. 

Lilly enjoyed the story and all the pictures and the idea of a book inside of a book is cute concept.  I just don’t know that I agree with encouraging that type of behavior out of little ones.  We don’t let Lilly act that way and I wouldn’t want her to think its ok just because she saw it in the book, even though the little girl seemed better at the end.

Overall we give The Princess and the Peas and Carrots 3 stars.