This traditional retelling is beautifully illustrated and designed for the modern reader. It is suitable for children aged 3 to 6. How can you know if a princess is real or just pretending? All it takes is one pea under the mattress and the truth will be revealed. Lavishly illustrated and lovingly retold, these new Silver Penny Stories are sure to find a cherished place in any family's collection. The classic tales have captured readers' hearts and imaginations for generations and children and parents will enjoy reading them together over and over again.
This book is part of a book series called Silver Penny Stories .
There are 48 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2013 by Sterling Publishing Co Inc .
Diane Namm is the author of several Classic Starts books, including Greek Myths. Sarah Brannen has illustrated more than a dozen books for children. She won the Ann Barrow Scholarship from the New England chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators in 2007. Linda Olafsdottir's illustrations have appeared in trade picture books--including three of Sterling Publishing's Silver Penny Stories--and educational books, and on stamps, cereal boxes, and children's clothing. Linda was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Play! is her first picture book for Cameron Kids. Linda lives in Reykjavik, Iceland, with her husband and two kids.
This book contains the following story:
The Princess and the Pea
A prince travelled the world to find a real princess to be his bride, but none of them would quite do. One night during a massive storm a girl knocked on the door claiming to be a princess from down the road looking for shelter. The queen was sceptical so placed a pea under the mattress of the spare bed. Then she piled more and more mattresses onto the bed so that it was so high the girl needed a ladder to climb into bed. Only a real princess will feel the pea under that many mattresses thought the queen. The next morning the queen asked the girl how she had slept and she complained bitterly about a hard lump in the bed. The queen was delighted and presented the girl to the prince. This is a real princess, she said. The prince was delighted and the two got married and lived happily ever after.
