Who turns into a toad Princess Smartypants?
Who turns into a toad Princess Smartypants?
Prince Swashbuckle leaves in a big hurry. Prince Swashbuckle completes all the tasks. Prince Swashbuckle turns into a gigantic toad. Princess Smartypants is happy because she doesn’t marry a prince.
What is the theme for Princess Smarty Pants?
Princess Smartypants is an example of a children’s picture book which uses gender reversal to tell a story that would never really happen. What if women of high socio-economic status could choose their own marriage/non-marriage partners?
Who turns into a toad in Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole?
Only Prince Swashbuckle passes, and she turns him into a toad “so she lived happily ever after.” Cole raises this story to a higher power with pictures witty enough to delight even children who don’t get all her plays on words.
What does it mean to be a smarty pants?
Definition of smarty-pants informal. : smart aleck, know-it-all “If you give people the impression you’re a smarty-pants, that’s no good for sure.”—
Where did smarty pants come from?
The terms smarty-pants and smarty-boots are reminders of a time when the word smarty was used to mean a know-it-all or someone who is too smart for his own good or overconfident. This definition of smarty dates back to the 1860s. The terms smarty-pants and smarty-boots date to the 1920s-1930s.
Who says smartypants?
Smarty-pants is mostly an American term, and smarty-boots is mostly a British term. Note that the Oxford English Dictionary renders these words with hyphens, though they are often seen as two, separate words without hyphens or more rarely, as one word without a spaces or hyphens.
Why is it called smartypants?
Who is Mr Smarty Pants?
Smartypants is a character featured on Histeria! He is described as being the smartest man in the world, but he is also incredibly shy and wears a pair of pants so tall that they cover up half of his face, hence his name.
