The piglet grows up amid pretentious, clueless royalty and matures into an untamable pink menace that wreaks well-deserved havoc in the castle and is foisted on an unlucky prince. The princess grows up in a poor but doting family of farmers, matures into a sweet young woman, and ends up marrying a handsome shepherd and living happily ever after. Once upon a time, an infant princess and a piglet inadvertently swap places. From the creators of the award-winning THE SANTA TRAP.Įmmett and Bernatene have concocted a pretty much perfect fractured fairy tale, with wry, Thurberesque prose and gorgeously funny digital drawings that both embrace and wink at the genre. Witty, inventive and bursting with fairy tale fun. Things are less straightforward for a pig princess, but if kissing a frog can work, surely the same applies to pigs.
It’s the sort of thing that happens all the time in fairy tales! Priscilla grows up on the farm, poor but very happy. The ill-tempered King and Queen squarely blame a bad witch. Priscilla the princess has switched places with Pigmella, the farmer’s new piglet! The kindly farmer and his wife believe it’s the work of a good witch. There’s been a dreadful mix-up in the royal nursery. The Plesiosaur's Neck (with Dr Adam S.Product dimensions: 12.02 (w) x 9.68 (h) x 0.38 (d) Skyboy and other Stupendous Science Storiesįast and Furry Racers: The Silver Serpent CupĬleopatra Bones and the Golden Chimpanzee Ruby Flew Too! / Once Upon a Time, Upon a Nest He has since written over sixty children's books and his work has been translated into over 30 different languages. He began writing and illustrating children's books in his spare time while working as an architect, but left the profession in 1995 to pursue a career in children's literature. Emmett developed his writing and illustration skills while at the University of Nottingham studying architecture. Best known as a picture book author, his writing is inspired and influenced by the picture books he read as a child including Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Jonathan Emmett was born in Leicestershire in 1965. Įmmett has also written and paper-engineered several pop-up books including, Emergency Rescue and Tyrannosaurus Rocks. His books have won several awards including the Red House Children's Book Award for Pigs Might Fly and the Sheffield Children's Book Award for The Pig's Knickers. He is best known for his picture books including Bringing Down the Moon, Someone Bigger and The Princess and the Pig. Jonathan Emmett (born 10 December 1965) is a British children's author and pop-up book designer.
Bringing Down the Moon, Someone Bigger and The Princess and the Pig
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