BABETTE COLE ROYAL COLLECTION

3 stories and pictures by Babette Cole  

Brand new softcover picture book, 96 pages. Beautiful full-colour illustrations on every page.

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.

Prince Cinders

Poor Prince Cinders – all he ever gets to do is to clean and scrub and tidy up after his three big hairy brothers (who are terrible bullies as well). Until one Saturday night, when a small dirty fairy falls down the chimney and promises Prince Cinders that all his wishes will come true...

King Change-a-lot

King and Queen Spend-fortune are making a very bad job of running the kingdom, and Prince Change-a-lot iss tired of being treated like a baby. He'd change things if he could talk like a grown up... With a quick rub on his potty, he defeats the dreadful dragons, blasts the beastly blubberworms and becomes a cool ruler.

Awards

Babette has won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the BLA Annabell Fargeon Award for both Princess Smartypants (1986) and Prince Cinders (1987). Princess Smartypants also won the British Library Association (BLA) award in 1986.

About the Author:

Babette Cole was born in 1950. She is an English children's writer and illustrator. Babette attended The Canterbury College of Art where she received a BA Honours. She worked at the BBC creating children's programs such as Bagpuss and Watch With Mother. She has written over 70 picture books and her best-selling book Doctor Dog has been made into a successful children's cartoon series. She mainly writes children's comedy books including The Smelly Book, The Hairy Book, The Slimy Book and The Silly Book. Babette draws inspiration from her own animals, from Tenniel - whose Alice drawings "contributed to my love of the grotesque", from Edward Lear "for his scratchy lines" and from Quentin Blake - "the creme de la creme". Babette currently spends her time writng, visitng schools and travelling.

Watch Babette read Princess Smartypants on YouTube