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Isadora, Rachel, Reteller

The Princess and the Pea

(3) K-3 The classic Andersen version is familiar: everyone wants to marry the prince, so his mother, keen to identify a true princess, places a pea beneath twenty mattresses. Isadora sets the tale in East Africa, and she uses cut paper to create astonishing folkloric tableaux.

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