Tony Ross

Claiming to be too ill to do chores or go to school, the Little Princess makes a miraculous recovery when a party invitation arrives.

A little princess decides that two birthdays would be better than one, and three better than two, until every day becomes her birthday, but she soon realizes that the more birthdays she has, the less special they are.

When Rita's mother refuses to get her a pet, Rita goes to the zoo and returns with a rhinoceros--but keeping a pet rhino a secret proves to be much trickier than she ever imagined.

"The Little Princess can't wait to start school! At first, she finds it difficult to make friends and she is left all alone. But she soon finds there are other children with no friends, and before she knows it she has more friends than she can count!"

When things start going wrong around the castle everyone blames the Little Princess.

When the Royal Family moves to a new castle, Little Princess misses her old room.

When the Little Princess discovers that her dad, the King, is not as adventurous as the other dads, she decides to give some fun activities a try without him and realizes she is more like her father than she thought.

Upon learning that her family is expecting a new baby, a little princess insists that a boy would be unacceptable--she wants a sister.

Retells the traditional tale with modern touches, such as a television in the bears' home and jeans on Goldilocks.