A fun retelling of The Princess and the Pea. This is a great chapter book for early readers. One of my favorite features are the speech and thought bubbles added to the watercolor illustrations. It adds a fun, modern twist that kids would enjoy.

The character traits and sequence of events in this book are very black and white, yet entertaining. This book would be great for studying character traits or sequence of events.

I gave it five-stars because it is well-written, entertaining, nice to look at, and would have high kid appeal. A down-side is that it is bright pink, which I imagine would scare away young boys and maybe some girls.

My copy did not have the CD included. ( )

This is a fictional fairy tale. The illustrations are done in watercolors. The content of this story is about a young girl who is caught in a storm and seeks refuge in a castle. The prince and his mother place a pea under twenty mattresses to see if she can feel the pea and prove she is a real princess. The girl awakes in the morning with a terribly sore back and a bruise. She proved she was a princess and married the prince. The reading level of this book is from second to fourth grade. Some curricular connections could be sensitivity, princesses, and fairy tales.