Princess Smartypants enjoys being a Ms and really does not want to get married. She sets each suitor an impossible task, but one day a suitable candidate appears. Fortunately, he turns into a toad when Smartypants kisses him and all other Princes are put off the idea of marrying her. She is then able to relax and live happily ever after..."Princess Smartypants" was previously a Harper Collins paperback. Readership level: 6+. Full colour throughout.

Babette Cole was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands. She graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1973 and was the illustrator and author of more than 150 witty, imaginative, irreverent and thought-provoking picture books for children including the bestselling, stereotype-defying Princess Smartypants. She produced animated storyboards for the BBC and illustrated numerous greetings cards and books by other authors as well as her own. Babette adored the countryside and was a keen horse rider and breeder. She spent much of her life in Lincolnshire, before moving to Kent and then westward through Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.