White Ravens’99/Germany/67331
Auer, Martin (text) 
 Kulot-Frisch, Daniela (illus.)
 Die Erbsenprinzessin. Die Geschichte von der Prinzessin auf der Erbse nach Hans Christian Andersen
 ganz frei nacherzählt, aufs Zehnfache aufgeblasen und mit vielen Versen versehen, 
 dazu um die Geschichte des treuen Dieners Truffal-dino bereichert
 (The Princess and the Pea)
 Stuttgart: Thienemann, 1998. 121pp
 (Thienemanns fliegender Teppich)
 ISBN 3-522-17187-X
 Princess - Servant - Social inequality 
 Accompanied by his faithful servant, an eligible bachelor prince goes off in search of a bride. But as he is
 not all too clever, the servant Truffaldino must amend many royal blunders (not all girls are princesses!).
 Thus they return home without a fiancée. But soon she is standing, unsummoned, at the door - pitch wet
 and cranky. And just as in Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale, she notices the pea under the mattress,
 and the wedding follows. Yet there is nothing even slightly proper or royal to this version, as uncouth as a
 Punch and Judy show, making it all the more enchanting. (6+) 

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