Princess Paulina needs a job. Ever since her father retired from his throne to become a carpenter, Paulina has had no use for her princess skills. When she hears that Prince Drupert, the sorry-looking son of overbearing Queen Zelda, is looking for a princess to marry, Paulina can't pass up the opportunity to put her princessing skills into practice. She passes the mattress and the pea and the glass slipper contests. But when she's faced with the task of cooking a feast fit for a prince, she fears that not even her royal lineage can save her. Readers will delight in the sly references to other fairy tales and in the goofy visuals (e.g., with a sardonic grin, a Rapunzel-like princess uses her very long braid to trip Paulina). The illustrations, representing the wife-and-husband team's first picture-book collaboration, resemble those in Mary Jane Auch's previous works-they are just as witty yet considerably more detailed. This sassy send-up seems likely to deliver a royal case of the giggles, in "The Princess and the Pizza ". Ages 4-8. - from Amzon