With fanciful humor and rich vocabulary, <i>Princess Pistachio</i> is a perfect early reader for children who have grown up with Gay’s beloved picture books and are ready to read a chapter book themselves.<br>Pistachio has always known she was a princess. When a mysterious gift turns up on her birthday, she’s sure it’s only a matter of time before her real parents, the king and queen of Papua, arrive to take her away. But in the meantime, she still has to eat her spinach and get up for school. Her school friends still laugh when she wears her new gold crown to class. And her annoying baby sister still makes endless trouble. What’s a princess to do?