A king and queen "did all the traditional fairy-tale things in order that their son might be bowled over by the right girl," but nothing quite works. One night a girl slides on her favorite "pea green" dress and goes out into the moonlight where she is lost in a storm and wanders to a palace door. The queen tests her with a pea and stack of mattresses to determine if she is a real princess, the prince falls in love with her, they marry and peas are not served at the reception. This retelling is quirky and fun but the most fascinating aspect of this book are the illustrations. The characters are cut-outs of paper drawings and are placed in settings built with dollhouse in a miniature three dimensional world. The back endpapers detail the creation and photography of the sets.
Grades 1-4
Monday, February 26, 2007
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Here's old fashioned me again with a complaint. In the first sentence, there's a grammatical error. Once there was a king and queen??? Sorry, this made me prejudiced before I even got started.I liked the re-telling, but not the multiple fonts. They make the pages way too busy for my taste. Please note, this is a comment, not a second.
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