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The Princesses’ Preschool: The Pea/Prinsessornas förskola: Ärten

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The Princesses’ Preschool: The Pea/Prinsessornas förskola: Ärten

At the preschool where everyone is a princess, we do things the princess way. Princesses wear beautiful dresses—sparkly ones with lovely ruffles—and prefer to drink juice from crystal glasses; the day begins with princess games like “Hide the Pea.” Everything is exactly as it should be—until a new teacher arrives.

The new teacher shows up in really strange clothes: jeans and a striped sweater. She has never heard of “Hide the Pea,” she packs plastic cups for the field trip, and she even thinks we princesses can bake our own pastries. Surely, that’s not how things are done?
Or is it?

During a day filled with play, adventure, and a bit of unexpected messiness, we might discover that things can work in more ways than one. Or, at the very least, the teacher learns how things are—and how they ought to be—at the Princess Preschool.

A warm, humorous, and charming story about princesses, preschool life, and discovering that the world can sometimes be even more fun when things don’t go quite as planned.

Elin Johansson

Author

Elin Johansson (b. 1978) lives in Tavelsjö. A former media engineer, she now works as an upper-secondary school teacher specializing in Swedish. She achieved great success with her debut book, Waiting for Monday, illustrated by Ellen Ekman. She co-authored A Friend of Aunt Irene and A Room for Lisen—the latter nominated for the 2021 August Prize—with…

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Ellen Ekman

Illustrator

Ellen Ekman (b. 1986) is an illustrator and cartoonist who has quickly established herself as a creator of picture books. Her comic strip Lilla Berlin appears regularly in Dagens Nyheter and other newspapers in both Sweden and Norway. Ekman made her picture book debut in 2016 with Waiting for Monday, created in collaboration with Elin…

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