The Princess and the Pea

Dick Gackenbach
Published by Picture Puffin
0-14-050571-7, £1.95

The Andersen tale is cleverly updated by a gifted American author-artist. The transatlantic tones add to the fun: "'They are all phony," Prince Charley decided. "There's not a real princess in the bunch."' The pictures, green and pink pastels and a clever use of perspective, serve the tale well.

Reviewed in BfK No. 42 (January 1987) by Colin Mills (CM)
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