The Princess and the pit Stop

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Call Number: E ANG, Kids Book / Picture Books / Royalty / Angleberger, Tom
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	E ANG	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	E ANG	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / Royalty / Angleberger, Tom	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / Royalty / Angleberger, Tom	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / Royalty / Angleberger, Tom	4-week checkout	Due 05-22-2024

When a Princess learns from her Fairy Godmother that she is in last place in a car race against such fairy tale notables as Humpty Dumpty, the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin, she boldly rebuffs defeat and steps on the gas.

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Fun! submitted by elizatsou on August 7, 2018, 12:17pm This story is not a typical race car story. It involves a princess who doesn't give up. The story features tons of characters from different fairy tales. Very creative and fun to read.

Meh submitted by FordAlpha on August 14, 2018, 9:06pm With impressive credentials (author Tom Angleberger, whose "McToad Mows Tiny Island" is a favorite at our house; and illustrator Dan Santat, several of whose books are popular with my kids), "The Princess and the Pit Stop" ought to be great. But to me, it's a bore. There's no tension in the plot; the princess simply zooms past a laundry list of fairy-tale characters--too many, really--none of whom seems to matter in their own right, and then, sportingly, invites everyone to a ball at the end.

Great Visuals, So-So Story submitted by Meginator on June 23, 2019, 10:43pm This picture book reads a lot like a comic book, with multi-panel page layouts, dramatic close-ups, and creative interplay between the narrator and the characters' speech. What the book lacks in plot it almost makes up for with vivid, kinetic illustrations and pun-laden descriptions of familiar fairy tale characters, though the princess really does deserve slightly more story here. A stronger script could have effectively driven home the message about perseverance (it gets easily lost here, as the princess makes only one meaningful decision and faces no real obstacles), but the book's visual appeal still makes it a winner.

Princess and the pit stop submitted by Kobeske on July 1, 2019, 11:52am Great pictures.