The Pea And The Princess

The pea gives its own version of what happened in the fairy tale, "The Princess and the Pea," from the time of its birth in the palace garden until it helps arrange a royal marriage. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Once, there was a Prince who wanted to marry a Princess. Only a real one would do. So he traveled through all the world to find her, and everywhere things went wrong. There were Princesses aplenty, but how was he to know whether they were real Princesses? There was something not quite right about them all. So he came home again and was unhappy, because he did so want to have a real Princess.

A collection of nineteen happy stories featuring the Disney princesses.

A reimagining of the classic "The Princess and the Pea" set in an African American community in the South in the 1950s. Now in paperback! In this adaptation of "The Princess and the Pea," there are no mattresses. Ma Sally cooks the best black-eyed peas in Charleston County, South Carolina. Her son, John, is a highly eligible bachelor, and three local women vie for his hand in marriage by attempting to cook as well as Ma. At the last minute, a surprise contestant named Princess arrives at the door. Princess and John are well-matched, but Princess has her own ideas. When told she has won John’s hand, she asks him to scrub the pots and pans before she'll give him an answer. Dedicated to "Black families everywhere," this heartwarming story, with its fairy-tale tone, will have broad appeal. —Kirkus Reviews

One rainy night, Princess Polly knocks on a lonely prince's palace door. But is she a real princess? The queen has a plan to find out! This padded storybook of the classic fairy tale The Princess and the Pea features engaging text and sweet, colorful illustrations. Designed to encourage vocabulary development and help children read aloud, this story uses large font types and vibrant, contemporary illustrations to help early learning skills.

As her parents learn to how manage their daughter's persnickety ways, a little girl also comes to understand the royal reason that she is so fussy. Full color.

Bedtime Classics: charmingly illustrated board book editions of perennial favorites, simplified for the youngest readers! Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character-driven narratives and colorful illustrations. Designed to be the perfect one-minute bedtime story (or five minutes--if you're begged to read it over and over), parents can feel good about exposing their children to some of the most iconic pieces of literature while building their child's bookshelf with these trendy editions! A King and Queen invite all the princesses in the land to their palace to find a proper suitor for their son, the prince. But when an unconventional princess stumbles through the castle gates, she's put to the ultimate test. By setting a pea under a large stack of mattresses, the royal family will discover if the girl is "princess material" once and for all.