Original title: Montako yötä vielä, Prinsessa Pikkiriikki
Author: Hannele Lampela
Illustrator: Ninka Reittu
Published: 2024
Publisher: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
Genre: Chapter Books (3-6 Years)
Pages: 80
Part of a series: Itty Bitty Princess
Reading material:
English synopsis, Finnish edition
A Christmas Calendar Book For All Impatient People
24 magical stories about Itty Bitty Princess’ journey to Christmas.
✓ The first Itty Bitty Princess film aired in 2024 – you can see the trailer here! A second film planned for 2025!
✓ 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
Itty Bitty Princess is impatiently waiting for Christmas. And believe it or not, every single night a little elf peeks in the window and looks to see what Itty Bitty Princess has been up to!
The days counting down to Christmas can fit magic, cakes, and gingerbread - and many, many questions. Among other things, about elves, kindness and why some get much bigger gifts than others or why some get to be angels in the Christmas play and others have to be donkeys.
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 Editor, Planeta Mexico