The Princess & The Pea, Pippa’s first pop-up book, was published by MacMillan and Tango Children’s Books in 2011. It was distributed throughout Europe and America in several languages, and is available to purchase in major branches of Waterstones, Foyles and the TATE Museum, London.

Pippa collaborated with her husband, Joel, a skilled paper engineer, to design and construct the intricate paper pop-up mechanisms. Following the publisher’s approval of the initial storyboards and white-body models, each scene was meticulously developed into a fully functioning sample spread. Pippa then converted all of her original hand-drawn artwork into digital layout files, which were submitted to the publisher completely prepared for printing, die-cutting, and final assembly.

This is one of my favourite Hans Christian Andersen stories, and it was so nice to be able to bring it to life as an exciting pop-up book! We made sure that there was a satisfying surprise at the end to illustrate the intriguing closing words of the original tale, where it says that the pea can still be seen in the royal museum . . . unless someone has stolen it!”

Bond Street jewellery retailer Marimoto used seven copies of the book as part of window display themed The Princess & The Pearl in Spring 2012.