A little girl, 5 or 6 years old, came in to the library today looking for a book that she had checked out from the library before. She told me that the name of the book was "Lily Rose May." I looked this up in our catalog and nothing came up, so I assumed that she was misremembering the title of the book. I asked if she could tell me what the story was about. To paraphrase:
"It was the story of the Princess and the Pea, and there was a princess in the castle who didn't like peas but then she tried the peas and she liked them."
Hmm.
I turned to my handy friend NoveList to see if the database could help me solve this puzzle. I decided to try searching for "Lily Rose May" first to see what came up since the girl seemed to remember that particular phrase very distinctly, even though I couldn't at all figure out how this phrase connected to the story. Sure enough, the first title the came up in the results was the book she was looking for!
The book in question was, "The Princess and the Peas" by Caryl Hart. In this story a girl named Lily-Rose May dislikes peas. Her father takes her to the doctor who diagnoses her with princess-itus and sends her to live in a castle where she discovers that peas are the perfect princess food. It seems that she eventually learns to like peas. Turns out that the girl who was searching for the book has remembered the little girl character's very distinct name. The fact that both the book's description and reviews of the book contain this name make finding this book a lot easier than I'd originally expected.
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