Author: Stephanie Peters
ISBN: 1434217434
Publisher: Stone Arch Books, 2009
Age: 9-12
Genre: graphic novels, fairy tales
Summary: A young prince goes in search of a true princess to marry and cannot find one, so he returns home in despair. One dark rainy night after he returns from his quest there is a loud knock on the door. The door opens to reveal a bedraggled girl who claims to be a true princess. The queen is skeptical, and so rather than join them for supper she instructs the servants to pile 20 extra mattresses on the princesses bed, and then places a small pea underneath all of them. Only a true princess would be sensitive enough to feel the pea. In the morning the queen asked the princess how she slept and was told about the horrible night the princess had passed. The queen then knew she was a real princess and the prince and princess were married the next day.
Read A-likes: Cinderella: the graphic novel; Hansel and Gretel: the graphic novel; The Ugly Duckling: the graphic novel; Beauty and the Beast: the graphic novel; and Jack and the Beanstalk: the graphic novel.
Personal Thoughts: I have always been skeptical of retold classic stories done in graphic novel format, but this was an interesting and well done adaptation. The illustrations were not necessarily to my personal taste, but are very typical to the graphic novel genre.
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