Princess Precious and the Peasant Girl is a children’s picture book written by Gaby Goldsack and Cathie Shuttleworth.
The book is about a young princess who is very spoilt and demands to have presents a lot. Her father –the King tells her that she is lucky to get everything she wants, unlike a peasant girl who is outside. The princess then insults the girl and heads outside to tell the girl to go away. The peasant girl then starts to leave; put the princess sees her coat and wants it. The peasant girl says it isn’t fit for a princess, but then the princess says “I wish it was mine!” Suddenly the princess becomes a peasant and is wearing the coat. The guards don’t seem to recognize her as the princess anymore and she forced to live as a peasant. The princess then soon learns about peasants and how they live. She then tells them one night, “I wish I’d been kinder.” The princess then finds herself back in the royal palace and everyone is delighted to see her again. She also had learnt a lesson about being spoilt and is never spoilt again.
The book is 20 pages long and the pictures are nicely detailed and colourful. The story has a lot of words so younger children under the age of 7 mightn’t be able to read it well. The book has a message to it, and the message was clearly shown through the pictures and text.
The author, Gaby Goldsack, has been writing children’s books since 1995. She covers all types of books, from picture ones to activity ones. She lives in a town in England, and likes to travel all over Britain for inspiration for her books. She also is an illustrator.
