Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperors New Clothes, Holiday House (New York, NY), 1985. The Princess and the Pea by Janet Stevens, Hans Christian Andersen 4.49 Free shipping The Princess and the Pea - Paperback By Stevens, Janet - GOOD 3.66 Free shipping Hover to zoom Have one to sell Sell now Shop with confidence eBay Money Back Guarantee Get the item you ordered or get your money back.
Aesop, The Tortoise and the Hare, Holiday House (New York, NY), 1984. The Princess and the Pea Retellings (45 books) Discover new books on Goodreads Meet your next favorite book Join Goodreads Listopia The Princess and the Pea Retellings This list is for retellings of The Princess and the Pea, orginally a Hans Christian Andersen story. Before paternity or DNA tests, and in an age when kings – fathers of princesses, in other words – found it as easy to get themselves killed in battle as to sire a daughter, it was probably a tricky business trying to ascertain your bride-to-be’s credentials in the blue-blood department. Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, Holiday House (New York, NY), 1982. One explanation is that the story is about the importance of a prince making a good marriage, to a woman of royal blood who came from good ‘stock’. But what, then, might the true meaning of the tale be? A story that goes back to India almost a thousand years ago (and that’s only the earliest one we know about: many fairy tales have the ring of oral culture about them, and oral literature is notoriously good at getting itself lost down the centuries) surely has more importance than warnings about maintaining a tidy valance or laughter about how the royals are a bunch of pernickety wusses farther removed from the sufferings of ordinary people than a Martian holidaying on Pluto.
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