<DIV>Not all princesses are made of sugar and spice--some are made of funnier, fiercer stuff<br><BR>Princess Amanita laughs in the face of danger. Brakeless bicycles, pet scorpions, spiky plants--that's her thing. So when quiet Prince Florian gives her roses, Amanita is unimpressed . . . until she sees their glorious thorns! Now she <i>must</i> have rose seeds of her own. But when huge, honking <i>noses</i> grow instead, what is a princess with a taste for danger to do?<br><BR>For readers seeking a princess with pluck comes an independent heroine who tackles obstacles with a bouquet of sniffling noses. At once lovely and delightfully absurd, here's a story to show how elastic ideas of beauty and princesses can be.</div>