A prince travels the world to find a suitable princess to marry - but none of the girls he meets seems right, and he cannot be sure any is a real princess. And so he returns home sadly. But then one stormy night there is a knock at the door and in comes a girl dressed in rags. She claims she is Princess Phoebe, looking for a prince she can marry. The prince is soon fascinated by her, so the queen devises a plan - she will place a single pea underneath the many mattresses on Phoebe's bed. In the morning, Phoebe complains of not having slept a wink. The queen is overjoyed - if the girl has felt the pea under all those layers she must be a real princess!
- ISBN10 0192782371
- ISBN13 9780192782373
- Publish Date 1 November 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 March 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 24
- Language English