Product Description 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 isPrincess 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 feltthe pea under all those layers she must be a real princess! Review `[About Chicken Licken and The Tortoise and the Hare]: 'Beautifully presented editions in which lively text and colourful images sit happily together''West Sussex Gazette`[About The Gingerbread Boy and Goldilocks and the Three Bears]: 'Clearly and amusingly retold, the stories are enhanced by Ian Beck's cheerful illustrations.''Daily Echo About the Author Other tales in the series: Chicken Licken, The Tortoise and the Hare, Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, The Gingerbread Boy, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Enormous Turnip, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Elves and the Shoemaker (publishing November 2005)Other books illustrated by Ian Beck: Best-Loved Stories and Nursery Rhymes, The Oxford Nursery Treasury, The Oxford Nursery Story Book, The Oxford Nursery Book, Ride a Cock-Horse, Round and Round the Garden, Stories and Songs for Bedtime.The Elves and the Shoemaker book-and-CD edition also publishing in November 2005.