The Princess and the Petri Dish

by Sue Fliess, Petros Bouloubasis (Illustrator)

Overview

Pippa isn't your usual princess. She prefers petri dishes to perfecting her curtseying. And when she realizes that she doesn't like peas, she gets a bright idea that consumes her and almost the whole kingdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807566442
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	04/01/2020
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	516,839
Product dimensions:	10.75(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	AD530L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Sue Fliess is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than fifty children's books including Cicada Symphony, The Earth Gives More, and the Kid Scientist series. Her books have been named to notable lists and translated into multiple languages. Sue lives in Northern Virginia.

Petros Bouloubasis graduated from the Graphic Design Institute of Athens. His work is published and exhibited in Greece, Spain, Japan, Iran, Australia, France, Korea, Belgium and Turkey. He is also the illustrator of Mary Had a Little Lab, Little Red Rhyming Hood, and The Princess and the Petri Dish. He lives in Athens, Greece.

Editorial Reviews

"Fleiss' lilting, rhyming abcb verse is a delight to read, and Pippa's quirky perseverance stands as an endearing example for young budding scientists of all genders. Bouloubasis' fantastical illustrations are vibrant with movement, color, and detail..."—Kirkus Reviews

"The rhyming story is...inspirational, as Pippa is undeterred and continues her lab work even when her experiments fail to yield success."—Booklist

From the Publisher

"The rhyming story is...inspirational, as Pippa is undeterred and continues her lab work even when her experiments fail to yield success."—Booklist

Booklist

2019-12-22
After numerous setbacks, Princess Pippa achieves her dream of becoming a groundbreaking scientist and inventor.

Even though she lives in a castle, Princess Pippa is not interested in becoming just another curtsying royal. Instead, she spends hours in her laboratory, dreaming of making discoveries that will win her prizes. Lofty ambitions notwithstanding, the majority of Pippa's chemical forays have been disastrous: In the past, she's invented brittle bubble gum, soap that turns fingers blue, and bad-smelling mouthwash. Finally, one night at dinner, inspiration strikes. After much experimentation—using a pea, a cocoa bean, and the titular petri dish—Pippa creates peas that tastes like chocolate, so tasty that everyone in the entire kingdom takes to sprinkling them on all of their food at every meal. But just when Pippa is about to celebrate, the pea vines grow faster and faster, spreading beyond the castle walls. Pippa's scientific prowess is put to the test one more time, when she must invent something to slow down the plants' growth—and still preserve the delicious peas the kingdom has come to love. Fleiss' lilting, rhyming abcb verse is a delight to read, and Pippa's quirky perseverance stands as an endearing example for young budding scientists of all genders. Bouloubasis' fantastical illustrations are vibrant with movement, color, and detail, but few characters in this kingdom are diverse. The royal family is white.

A silly, inspiring story of a princess who makes her scientific dreams come true. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews