Join Princess Poppy and her friends and family for another brilliant adventure in Honeypot Hill.

After a trip to visit her teenage cousin, Daisy, in Camomile Cove, Poppy is desperate to be as cool as she thinks Daisy is. In order to fulfill her ambition, Poppy decides that the first thing she needs to help her become a bit cooler is money. Along with her best friend, Honey, Poppy dreams up some brilliant money-making schemes. The second thing Poppy thinks she needs is more freedom. She is fed up with being treated like a baby. Find out whether Poppy and Honey's money-making ideas are a success and more importantly, will they be allowed to sing backing vocals in Daisy's band and join Daisy and all her cool school friends for the end of term BBQ and bike ride at Camomile Cove? Join Poppy on her journey to become the Pocket Money Princess!

Princess Poppy

Today is Fair Day in Honeypot Hill, and Poppy is almost bursting with excitement! There's a carousel, ice-cream and the Fair Day Ball that night. She even sees a perfect princess ball dress... but will she have enough pennies to buy it? There's also an extra special surprise in store for Saffron and Poppy at the ball...

Are you a princess too?
Peep inside and find a secret letter from Poppy to you!

Illustrated by Veronica Vasylenko

Janey Louise Jones:
Janey was born in Edinburgh and grew up by the seaside just outside the city. Janey published the first two Princess Poppy books herself (with her own illustrations) and the books were so popular that Random House Children?s Books soon bought the series and re-packaged the books. The series is now going from strength to strength, including picture books, novels for young readers, activity books and sumptuous gift books.
Janey read English at Edinburgh University specializing in the Victorian novel. Following this she became a teacher ? a career that she absolutely adored ? and then, with her husband, set up The Jelly Club, which has become an extremely successful chain of children?s activity centres in Scotland. She still very much enjoys visiting schools and talking to children to find out what they like doing and what makes them laugh. Janey and her husband live in Edinburgh with their three sons.

2008-08-18 It's ok

One of the earlier Princess Poppy books, this follows the usual plot pattern of this series. The book lays out the theme of the story, Poppy does something rude or selfish, before redeeming herself at the end.

This book is ballet themed, and to her credit, the author does not use one of the "usual" ballets (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty) and opts for Coppelia, and the moral of the story is loosely about being happy for one's friends even if they inadvertadly usurp your own success. Nice artwork too.

One curious observation (which is in a way central to the whole point of the story): My understanding of Coppelia is that the prima ballerina plays Swanilde, not Coppelia. Janey Louise Jones seems to think differently. Who knew?