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    The Prince and the Problem: A The Princess and the Pea Retelling by Hilary McKay
    The Prince and the Problem: A The Princess and the Pea Retelling by Hilary McKay
    The Prince and the Problem: A The Princess and the Pea Retelling by Hilary McKay
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    The Prince and the Problem: A The Princess and the Pea Retelling by Hilary McKay

    By Hilary McKay and Sarah Gibb

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    Often, I found things were not quite as they first seemed. Not all princesses are content to marry the prince, no matter how charming, or how carefully the queen arranges the peas.

    The Prince and the Problem is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale The Princess and the Pea. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination!

    From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateOct 12, 2017
    ISBN9781447292395
    The Prince and the Problem: A The Princess and the Pea Retelling by Hilary McKay
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    Hilary McKay

    Hilary McKay is the award-winning author of The Time of Green Magic (which received five starred reviews), The Skylarks’ War (which was a Boston Globe Best Book and received three starred reviews), Binny Bewitched (which was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and received two starred reviews), Binny in Secret (which received three starred reviews), Binny for Short (which received four starred reviews), and six novels about the Casson family: Saffy’s Angel, Indigo’s Star, Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, Forever Rose, and Caddy’s World. She is also the author of The Swallows’ Flight, Rosa by Starlight, and Wishing for Tomorrow, the sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess. Hilary lives with her family in Derbyshire, England. Visit her at HilaryMcKay.co.uk.

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      The Prince and the Problem - Hilary McKay

      To Ron and Mary Damms

      My father, who told me my first fairy tales, and my mother, who once (this is true), when she was twelve years old, spent an afternoon in a magic place that could only have been fairyland.

      Because when she went back to visit again, it had vanished, except for the memory that she treasures to this day.

      Contents

      Introduction

      The Prince and the Problem

      About the Author

      About the Illustrator

      Bibliography/Further Reading

      Introduction

      Of course these are not my fairy tales; they are everyone’s fairy tales, and have been for many years. Hundreds in the case of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and thousands in the case of Rumpelstiltskin. They are our living heritage, true fairy gold, except these stories do not disappear at sunset. Their day still shines. The best of them are well and flourishing, in schools and libraries, homes and playgrounds, just as much as they are with historians and universities.

      They live because they are so strong. They have withstood the years. Countries and rulers have come and gone, revolutions and wars have redrawn the old lines across Europe and beyond, forests have been felled, the wolves have all but vanished . . . and yet still their magic holds. Whoever has walked through a shadowy landscape, listening for the footsteps behind, has travelled with Red Riding Hood through the forest. Those far from home know the exile of the Swan Brothers. And I do not suppose there are many people reading this who have not speculated on the hazards of glass slippers, gingerbread houses, shiny red apples, and the problems of being caught out after midnight when you have been well warned that at the stroke of twelve, with no second chances, the party will be over.

      With the help of friends and family, I chose ten stories out of dozens. Often, I found things were not quite as they first seemed. Not all princesses are content to marry the prince, no matter how charming, nor how carefully the queen arranges the peas.

      It was exhausting and wonderful to write each of these stories. I walked miles through forests. I watched swans and skies. I read and read. I studied maps and silks and brocades.

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