Dragon Trouble

by Hannah Shaw

Welcome to Twinkleland Kingdom, where everything is 100% perfect. Except Princess Pea - she loves getting muddy and having fun and she's not keen on choosing her own perfect unicorn at the Royal Unicorn Parade. Until the final unicorn turns out to be a podgy, pongy, proud, magic-horned...pig? And so the adventures of Princess Pea and Unipiggle begin!

200 pages, Paperback

Published July 9, 2020

About the author

Hannah Shaw was born into a large family of sprout munching vegetarians.

As is the oldest child, she spent her formative years trying to be good at everything; from roller-skating to gymnastics. Hannah soon realised there wasn’t much chance of her becoming a gold medal winning gymnast, so she resigned herself to drawing pictures and writing stories!

By some mean feat Hannah found herself at the University of Brighton doing a degree in illustration. Soon an overwhelming obsession to make books took over her life. Inspired by her love of furry animals, Hannah wrote and illustrated her first picture book Evil Weasel, published by Jonathan Cape (Random House) in 2008. Her next book Erroll, about a boy who finds a squirrel in his packet of nuts, is out in 2009.

Hannah currently lives in a little cottage in the Cotswolds, with her husband Ben the blacksmith and her rescue dog Ren. Her over-active imagination fuels new ideas but unfortunately keeps her awake at night!

Reviews

[Mehsi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unipiggle and Princess Pea are back for a new adventure this time featuring dragons and dinosaurs.


I just love Princess Pea, how she is a princess but does her own things. Likes to make mudpools to dive into, climbs trees and treehouses, goes on adventures. OK, maybe she should learn to at least clean her feet when she comes back in the house after such a mud-covered adventure. Because that I found a tad rude to the magical folk that clean her palace.

I love Unipiggle as well. He is such a fun character and come on, he can magic anything chocolate. I love chocolate.

In this one our princess goes on an adventure (along with her unipiggle and the gardener on lawn mower (which had me in stitches)). First up to the library, which means we finally see some more of the town and I loved what I saw, and then onwards to adventures.

I had such a big and happy giggle when I saw the dinosaur, and laughed even harder when we find out how the dinosaur got in this place, oh my! It is up to unipiggle and Princess Pea + their new found friend a dragon to find a solution and I can honestly say that it was an amazing and yummy one.

I do love how different the king and queen are. The king is much more laid-back, while the queen is at times too much for me with her controlling attitude. I hope that the queen becomes a bit more laid-back as the stories continue.

I had a laugh at how the king expected the magical creatures to just do magic. I knew right away that this wouldn’t end well. Because you need to practice and use magic or else you lose it or it gets rusty. I do hope with the events of this book that the king learns that maybe he should just allow some magic at least.

Just like the previous book the illustrations were fab, fun, and super colourful. I just love the style of them.

All in all, this was another fun and delightful book in the Unipiggle series and I cannot wait for the next one! I need more cute and hilarious adventures.

Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/

[Fny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfekt högläsningsbok

[Книжни Криле · Rating 5 out of 5]

Представете си едно идеално приказно царство, в което… магиите са строго забранени. Представете си една енергична млада принцеса, която е принудена да… мирува и кротува. Е, напук на всички кралски укази и перфекционизъм, нещата съвсем скоро ще се оплескат подобаващо! "Прасчорог - Прасето еднорог: Бъркотия с еднорози" и "Прасчорог - Прасето еднорог: Бедствие с дракони" от Хана Шоу са две очарователни детски книги, които ще зарадват малките читатели с техните забавни, вълнуващи и… леко нетипични приключения. Прочетете ревюто на „Книжни Криле“: https://knijnikrile.wordpress.com/202...

[Natalie Aldread · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 7 year old suggested I read this so we could talk about it after she read it and loved it. Of course I obliged, love that she loves reading and the book was a wonderful colourful adventure tale of a princess that defies the Princess stereotype. My favourite part the ability of unipiggle (her royal steed) to turn anything to chocolate.

[Kath · Rating 4 out of 5]

The rules of Unipiggle's magic is made clearer in the second book - he can magic anything into chocolate! Unipiggle and Princess Pea have to fend off a dinosaur and a dragon from Twinkleland in this adventure. I didn't find it as fun as the first, but then I love an origin story. I think the target audience will love this second instalment.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 8 year old had just started wanting to read for fun. Especially big girl books. When I saw this book I knew it was a must. With lots of colourful pictures as well as easy text to read it was perfect. As a transition from picture books to big girl books.

[beckys_book_blog · Rating 5 out of 5]

My daughter loved this book. It was funny and had beautiful full colour illustrations. She wants to read the rest of the series. A great first chapter book.

[Iva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny, colorful, adventurous. I didn't like it as much as the first one, but I still had a lot of fun reading it with my kid.

[Harriet Egan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great, loved it so many colours and a nice short chapter book. 🏳️‍🌈

[Leah · Rating 5 out of 5]

With my 5 year old.