Tony Ross is a childrens writer who amongst other things such as Horrid Henry writes about a little princess who always wants her own way, we found one of his books I don't want to go to hospital at the library and I selected it as the picture on the front reminded me of my daughters tantrums.

The first book in this series was I want my potty from 1999 and from then there have been a number of others such as I want a friend, each book is about the trials and tribulations facing a young child. The book is also illustrated by Tony Ross and this one was published by Anderson Press the first issue of which being in 2000.

On the front cover of the book there is a bright red background with bright yellow title and Tony Ross written in white in the corner. The little princess is pictured jumping in from the corner looking like she is putting up a fight, the picture is big and bold with a bright yellow crown and wearing what I believe is a white gown.

On opening the book you find a double page which is a series of 18 pictures of the princess all in different positions and with different expressions, myself and my daughter went through each one and she told me whether she thought the princess was happy or not and then I elaborated on each one a little to introduce her to some new emotions.

The story begins with the little princess jumping around in the castle and complaining her nose hurts, after seeing the doctor she is told that she has a lump up her nose and that she needs to go to hospital. The princess does not want to go to hospital as the title of the book would indicate and the people in the palace then begin to try and bribe her. She is told she will get sweets and cards and it is a nice place to go where she will make lots of new friends but she still puts up a fight so she then decides to hide. Everyone in the palace spends ages looking for the princess and she is finally found in the attic hiding in a box and in the end tied into her buggy she is taken to the hospital. After the lump is removed from her nose she is sent back home but when the queen requests the princess brushes her hair and teeth and tidies her hair the princess decides she would prefer to go back to hospital and the final page says "they treated me like a princess there"

The illustrations for the book are brilliant and my daughter spent ages going through each picture and pointing out everything that she found funny such as the nurse pretending to take the princess' teddies pulse.

I enjoyed reading this book and also made sure that I pointed out that this isn't how you should behave when you don't want to do something although I don't think she was listening to me and of course pointed out that the princess was alright in the end.

The book was easy to read and there are only a few words to every page which makes it a good book to hold a short attention span, each page of the book is mainly the picture which pretty much tells you what is happening without needing the words. I would like to read more of Tony Ross' books and I am sure my daughter will enojoy more of them too.