The Princess & the Pepperoni Pizza: "What Happens Next?" Fairy Tales, #1

By Amy Joy and Hans Christian Andersen

Welcome to "What Happens Next?" Books!

Here kids get to decide where they'd like to see the story go next. Now instead of just one story, children have all kinds of possibilities to choose from. Choose differently and discover a new ending!

 

A new take on a classic

What happens when you take Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea" and let kids decide what happens next? You might find a queen with even sillier ideas than putting a pea in a bed! With over a dozen different endings, The Princess & the Pepperoni Pizza is a fun tale to read again and again!

 

Fun for all ages

This is a great book to read with a younger child (4-6), and fun for 7 to 12-year-olds to read on their own. Each story is the perfect length to read any time, including right before bed, and parents are sure to enjoy the silly stories as much as kids!

 

More "What Happens Next?" Fairy Tales

Love books where you choose the storyline? Be sure to check out the second book in this series, Frog Kisses, based on the Grimm Brothers' "The Frog Prince."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tenterhook Books, LLC
• Release date: Mar 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393517832

Book preview

The Prince Meets the Water-logged Princess

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.

Rain-soaked princess

It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.

Well, we’ll soon find that out, thought the old queen.

What happens next?

To have the queen put a pea in the princess’s bed, click here.

To have the queen put pizza in the princess’s bed, click here.

The Queen Puts a Pea in the Princess’s Bed

But the old queen said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.

What happens next?

To have the princess climb up and go to sleep, click here.

To have the princess not be able to climb to the top of the pile of mattresses, click here.

Pizza

The Princess Can’t Climb Into Bed

This is ridiculous! the princess said as she tried desperately to climb to the top of the stack of mattresses. They should at least have given me a ladder! WOOOOAH! With that, the princess tumbled back down to the floor.

What happens next?

To have the princess pull off the top mattress and lay it on the floor to sleep for the night, click here.

To have the