The Princess and the Pizza (Traditional Literature)

          In The Princess and the Pizza by Mary Jane and Herm Auch, the standard story of The Princess and the Pea gets a twist. In this story the Princess Paulina’s father, the King, decides he doesn’t want to be king anymore and steps down to become a woodcrafter. Princess Paulina isn’t to pleased with this decision and misses all her princess like duties such as waving to crowds from a cart, looking at the town from her window, walking her pet peacock, etc. Princess Paulina decides she wants to become a princess again and embarks on an adventure to marry a local towns prince, where she must compete against 12 other princess. After a while Princess Paulina wants to give up, but something interesting happens that changes all of the people’s lives around her forever.

            Since this story is similar to The Wolf’s Story in its story line, I would probably just have this as another example of ways that traditional literature can be changed up to be read from a different character’s point of view. The student’s could also read this as another example to pull from in their attempts to write a traditional piece of literature in a different character’s point of view.