Princess Pigtoria and the Pea

Submitted by Ms. Carol!
Princess Pigtoria and the Pea written by Pamela Duncan Edwards and illustrated by Henry Cole is the classic story of the princess and the pea with a little twist, since the princess in this story is a pig! Princess Pigtoria has a problem: her palace is a pigsty and she has no money to fix it up. She sees an ad in the paper requesting a bride for the prince and she figures if she marries the prince maybe he would help her fix up her palace. The prince is very picky and so when he meets Pigtoria he is not at all polite. He decides to place a pea under her pillows to see if Pigtoria is a proper princess, since only a proper princess would be able to feel such a small pea. In the meantime, Pigtoria meets Percy the Pizza Pig when she orders a pizza. They eat and dance the night away! Then Pigtoria goes to bed. Pigtoria can’t sleep because all the pizza, popcorn, and pie crumbs are pressing through her pajamas. She tells the prince the next morning what an awful night sleep she had and of course the prince is very happy and assumes he has found the proper princess since Pigtoria, he thought, had felt the pea. When Pigtoria finds out that the prince had placed a pea under her pillows she is very angry, and decides she likes Percy the Pizza Pig much better. So Pigtoria marries Percy and lives happily ever after! A very cute sory based on an old classic. See this book listed in our catalog