Princess Smartypants

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Summary

Babette Cole's riotously funny picture book, Princess Smartypants.

Princess Smartypants does not want to get married. She enjoys being a Ms. But being a rich and pretty princess means that all the princes want her to be their Mrs. Find out how Princess Smartypants fights to preserve her independence in this hilarious fairy-tale-with-a-difference.

'Babette Cole is ... funny, unrestricted and totally unforgettable' Independent on Sunday.

Babette Cole graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1973 and has been a writer and illustrater ever since. She has produced animated storyboards for the BBC, illustrated numerous greetings cards and books by other authors as well as her own. Babette won The Kurt Maschler Prize for DROP DEAD!. She lives in Lincolnshire with a menagerie of animals.

Other books by Babette Cole:

Princess Smartypants; Long Live Princess Smartypants; Prince Cinders; Bad Habits!; Princess Smartypants Breaks the Rules!; Doctor Dog; The Smelly Book; The Hairy Book; The Slimy Book; The Silly Book; Drop Dead; Nungu and the Hoppopotamus

About the author

Babette Cole

Babette Cole was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands. She graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1973 and was the illustrator and author of more than 150 witty, imaginative, irreverent and thought-provoking picture books for children including the bestselling, stereotype-defying Princess Smartypants. She produced animated storyboards for the BBC and illustrated numerous greetings cards and books by other authors as well as her own. Babette adored the countryside and was a keen horse rider and breeder. She spent much of her life in Lincolnshire, before moving to Kent and then westward through Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.

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