by Vera Southgate · Ladybird · tapa dura · ISBN 9780718192570
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«The Princess and the Pea» is Vera Southgate's children's fairy tale, published by Ladybird in hardback (48 pages, in English).
A prince travels the world seeking a real princess, but none convinces him. One stormy night, a young woman knocks at the castle gates and the queen decides to put her to the test: a pea hidden under twenty mattresses will reveal whether she is a true princess. Vera Southgate's adaptation features illustrations by Erica-Jane Waters.
It belongs to the Ladybird Tales collection, a series of illustrated adaptations of classic tales. Edition published in 2013.
Intended for reading aloud to children aged 3 and up; the English text helps early readers become familiar with the language.
Vera Southgate was a British educationalist who dedicated herself to improving how children were taught to read English from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, a period when many different methods were practised, including the initial teaching alphabet, phonics, and whole language.
