to also be a keen historian, who has traced the Poddington Peas' family roots. G-Pea (male): A general practitioner (and doctor) pea with white hair, glasses and a stethoscope, who carries a briefcase. Glop-Pea (male): An unkempt, unhygienic, and rather mysterious pea, hinted to be created by a scientist. Only seen in later books. Grump-Pea (male): A very grumpy-looking pea who likes to complain whenever the others require him to do something for an occasion. Hap-Pea (male): A happy, good-natured pea who wears a red baseball cap, and often appears to be the main character for the series. Hip-Pea (male): A musical hippy 1960s-era pea with long blond hair and a moustache, who wears a headband and carries a guitar. Later books show several other unnamed hippy peas in his company. Jump-Pea (male): A pea who has a single springlike hair and legs, and makes use of the latter for jumping higher than the others. Nap-Pea (male): The youngest pea, he is Penela-Pea's baby, who wears a white diaper, sits in a pushchair and carries a teddy bear. P.C. Pod (male): A policeman pea with a black moustache, who wears a blue helmet. His name is a pun on "P.C. Plod" from Noddy. Penela-Pea (female): A motherly pea who pushes her baby, Nap-Pea, around in a pushchair. Her name is a pun on the name "Penelope". Pop-Pea (male): A grandfatherly pea with white hair (even though he is mostly bald) who wears glasses and carries a walking stick. Princess Pea (female): Appearing in only one later book, she is a princess who inhabits a small, majestic castle located on a rise above the garden, who has lost her priceless golden pea. Her name is a play on the story of The Princess and the Pea, and the missing pea is indeed found under her mattress. Pup-Pea (dog): A small pea dog who helps keep the peace in Poddington, as P.C. Pod adopted him and trained him to be a police dog. Scoop-Pea (male): The editor for the "Daily Pod" (Poddington's daily newspaper), who wears glasses and a green eyeshade visor. Scrap-Pea (male): A scruffy tool and scrap worker pea with thin black hair and stubble, who wears a blue hat and carries a hammer. Scrum-Pea (male): A fairly elderly farmer pea, with thick white moustache and whiskers, and red checked shirt and dungarees. Talks in a West Country accent and