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 Princess & the Pea November 23, 2008
Myrletta E. Blades
I received this quickly and in better condition than the seller had desribed. I was very pleased!
Nice April 8, 2008
Linda's Land (Tennessee)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book for my 20 year old daughter who is truly a Princess Pea. She loved the book and I couldnt beat the price!
Beautiful Illustrations! February 21, 2006
C. Johnson (Spanish Fork, UT USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is in reference to the version illustrated by D. Duntzee--some of the reviews here were a little confusing on that point. This version is the time-honored story by H. C. Andersen which I grew up hearing. The illustrations are really lovely and my two little girls just adore this book. If you have a library of classic children's stories, you should add this book to it--it's wonderful!
 Empty retelling of Hans Christian Andersen tale September 20, 2005
A.Trendl HungarianBookstore.com (Glen Ellyn, IL USA)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
"The Princess and the Pea" by Janet Stevens is the retelling of the famous Hans Christian Andersen tale. This time, we get beautiful pictures, reminiscent of Maurice Sendak, and a bland story.
The typeface is an uninspired black Times New Roman, placed unimaginatively at the bottom of each page.
The Plot:
A prince wanted to test his beloved to see if she were a real princess. His mother demanded that the prince be sure. Each time the prince met someone he fell in love, she failed the test. One could not play soft music, another ate like a pig, and still another could not dance.
When a rainstorm brought in a young tiger who claimed to be a princess, the queen decided to lay out 20 mattresses with a pea beneath them all. Would the young tiger sense the pea and prove she was a real princess?
The story is all there. The problem is that there is nothing exciting in the language. There is no alliteration or assonance, and no word play. The writer goes through the motion of storytelling without ever bringing the story from her heart into the child's.
Better retellings are out there, and the illustrations, as good as they are, are not so much as to make the book a worthy purchase.
Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com
 Good for compare/contrast with other versions July 23, 2005
C. Betz (Dallas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Prince Ralph, who lives with his parents King Adolph and Queen Frieda in Upper Crestalia, declares that he wishes to be married. Greedy Queen Frieda, who is consumed with her gem collection, sees yet another opportunity to corner the market on gems in the kingdom. Following the pattern of other versions of this Hans Christian Andersen tale, Queen Frieda devises tests for all of the young princesses in the land, who are, of course, unable to pass the unfairly constructed trials. Enter Princess Opaline, a car fixing, jump-rope jumping princess who must pass the pea-under-the-mattress test to win the hand of the Prince. No surprises here; however, the story does have an updated look and feel, and the winning princess once again proves to be a smart, independent woman.
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