Not Just Another Princess Story [Hardcover]

After the king declares it???s time for Princess Candi to get married, the math-loving princess decides to carry out a husband search on her own. Not knowing how to find such a creature, she turns to fairy tales for inspiration and ends up using every method in the books, from kissing frogs to slaying monsters. But will she find her Prince Charming? Or just a bunch of duds who cheat, cry and make armpit noises? This swashbuckling tale is brimming with romance, algebra problems and at least one very large pickle.I. The Beginning, Of CourseOnce upon a time there was a princess named Princess Candi. Now, she was no ordinary princess. She was super-duper-extra beautiful and she was also super-duper-extra intelligent. Well, she was intelligent at least. Look, let???s just say she wasn???t totally stupid, okay?Candi was at least smart enough to know that not just any old prince was good enough for her, and certainly not any old prince that her father (the king, of course) chose for her. What did her father know about choosing princes? He???d never chosen one before. He hadn???t even chosen Candi???s mother, the queen. He???d won her in a high stakes poker game from a wizard who had already lost his watch, a faraway tract of swampland, a rather nice pair of silk boxer shorts, and all his oxen. Unfortunately for the king, the spiteful wizard turned the queen into a large pickle just after Candi was born. The king kept the queen in the pantry now, but she wasn???t much company to anybody, being a pickle and all.The wizard also placed a spell on the king that made the king a bit, well, silly. Everyone was much too polite to mention the change in the king, but they all noticed it???everyone, that is, except Candi. As long as Candi had been alive the king had been rather, well, goofy, but Candi loved him just the same.Loved him, but that didn???t mean she trusted him to select a prince for her. The king had never even picked out a suit of clothing for himself, never mind a prinlă!