The Princess and the Pickup Truck

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Pub Date 04 Oct 2018 | Archive Date 21 Jan 2019

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Description

Isn't it time there was a fairy tale aimed at girls and women who wear hiking boots, don't comb their hair, and love pickup trucks? The prince in this story wants to marry a real mountain princess, so he searches all the mountain ranges in the world... looking in the Sierras for women in tiaras, and at Glass Mountain for ladies wearing just one shoe. He ends up going home alone, only to be found by a princess who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to set out into the world on her own to find it. The Princess and the Pickup Truck is a modern retelling of The Princess and the Pea, but with a humorous, Appalachian, or at least rural, slant.

Isn't it time there was a fairy tale aimed at girls and women who wear hiking boots, don't comb their hair, and love pickup trucks? The prince in this story wants to marry a real mountain princess...


Available Editions

EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781942294115
PRICE $15.95 (USD)

Average rating from 21 members


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I loved this book. The untraditional princess speaks to every mountain girl. Mr. Lepp is a wonderful storyteller.

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True princesses are hard to find. They are even harder to find when you live on a farm in the mountains. But that didn't stop the prince from searching high and low for his true love.

This country re-telling of the princess and the pea is a cute little book for down to earth little girls!

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What a great message this book gives to younger girls. A good way to show that girls can do anything, and that it's okay to get dirty and like stuff that is typically "boy" stuff!

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This was a cute little book. It was a modern retelling of "The Princess and The Pea".

The drawings were a bit childish and looked a bit like they were drawn by a child but I think that would be enjoyed by 4-8 year olds. I was attracted to this book because my daughter is very independent and loves wearing boots, riding 4wheelers, hunting and wants a 4 wheel drive truck as her first vehicle so I thought this book would be cute with her in mind.

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Listen, The Princess and the Pickup Truck is not hardcore literature. It is a children's book for children. It was a cute fun country spin on The Princess and the Pea. Though the illustrations 'ain't' my favorite, I would still like to purchase a hardcover to add to my collection. 🤗💕

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The crazy title and the the start of the book won me over. The drawings are colourful and full of stuff, pictures and such, which will enhance the child's imagination and spark many more talking points.
'The Princess and the Pick-up Truck is a modern retelling of The Princess and the Pea', so the blurb goes, which will not cut any ice with the kids; best read up on it though grown ups. The publicity goes on to say "Isn t it time there was a fairy tale aimed at girls and women who wear hiking boots, don t comb their hair, and love pick-up trucks?". Well that's going to win with most 'modern' parents I guess, but the book is quite brilliant for all that hype.
'Y'all listen up' - it begins. Okay, it is American, but we do share a language, possibly, well it's better than are we sitting comfortably, then I'll begin. Then wonderfully 'Once there was this prince' - love it, none of this "Once upon a time " boosting the word count.
It is the story of a prince, a mommy's boy, who is out to find himself a natural princess. The story is told with imagination and with global expanse, so the reader has to contract the world and journey all over to complete the prince's quest. He fails but then a cool looking woman strolls into his life, but to judge her worth, mommy suggests a test.
Loved the humour, in unexpected places, and not telegraphed. To be found in words and pictures. The artwork is impressive and full of colour with contrasting images to set the story a wandering.
Bound to be a winner, so much to please the parent, and everything in a book to delight a child. Not a gender based book, or a fairy tale but an old fashioned tale like off "The Waltons". When the young girl is falling asleep you almost expect her to call out "Goodnight Johnboy".

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Well, That Was A Surprise

So, I downloaded this on a lark, and mostly because the cover looked funny and happy. I turns out that this was probably the cleverest and most cheerfully upbeat book I've read this month. Go figure.

Lots of times this sort of "mountain", "rural", and especially "Appalachian" humor is forced and/or phony feeling. Or, it has a dopey Hee-Haw vibe. Not here. This is a smart and witty tale that is silly, deadpan, and big-hearted, but with a few edgy little throwaways that give it a touch of vinegar and spice. The premise is that our hero wants to find a real Mountain Princess, and the way to test her out is to see if she can sleep on a pile of mattresses in the back of a pickup truck, (a la "Princess and the Pea").

It's a funny idea. But it gets better. The semi-rhyming text works. It isn't poetry, exactly; or at least not poetry that scans formally. It's more like a lilting kind of musical prose, with internal rhymes, ("He searched the Sierras for ladies in tiaras."). The result is pleasant, humorous, and very kid and read-aloud friendly. Putting aside structure, the text is funny, with gentle asides and witty surprises.

This is all enhanced by the drawing. It's part crayon-naif and part collage, with a fluid and friendly impressionistic approach to the human characters. It has a homemade feel that disguises the talent it takes to get across an impression of simple charm.

So, this is a little gushy, but I really was delighted by this treat that just came out of the blue. A wonderful find. (Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

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