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Original title: Prinsessa Pikkiriikki ja (kaamea) totuus vauvoista
Author: Hannele Lampela
Illustrator: Ninka Reittu
Published: 2022
Publisher: Otava
Genre: Picture Books (0-3 Years)
Pages: 32
Part of a series: Itty Bitty Princess
Reading material:
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Why on earth would parents want a baby that poops a lot and wakes them up in the middle of the night?
✓ Itty Bitty Princess, the loveliest, naughtiest, and kindest girl in the world, now starring in a picture book!
✓ Bestselling series, 650,000 copies sold!
✓ Itty Bitty Princess film released in 2024 and second one in development!
✓ Rights for the bestselling standalone picture books featuring Itty Bitty Princess have been sold to 6 territories
✓ Hannele Lampela has been awarded the prestigious Kaarina Helakisa Prize for her work and she has been nominated for the Runeberg Junior award 2019, the Storytel Finland Award 2020, and Arvid Lydecken Award four times, most recently in 2023
Where do annoying little siblings come from? Itty Bitty Princess figures out the truth about babies in her own bold manner.
Of course, Itty Bitty Princess knows that babies grow in mothers’ tummies. But how did they end up there? And how do they get out? And most importantly: why on earth would parents want a baby that poops a lot and wakes them up in the middle of the night?
This charming picture book by Hannele Lampela, illustrated by Ninka Reittu, provides answers to children’s puzzling questions about babies, but also touches on the emotions that big sisters and brothers go through when they hear a baby is on the way.
“Itty Bitty Princess and the (Awful) Truth About Babies is a warm, funny and sweet story that will solve many questions and will save some grownups from having that “uncomfortable” talk. Most important of all, Itty Bitty brings to the conversation the diversity and richness among all families, parents, siblings and guardians.”
-María José González Camarena, Children’s and YA Managing Editor
Download reading materials Rights sold:
FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
DENMARK: Turbine Forlaget
ESTONIA: Kirjastus Elust Enesest
ITALY: Fabbri Editori
WORLD SPANISH: Planeta Mexico
