Her oil paint, printed paper and palette paper artwork is vibrant and expressive, exhibiting strong African influences and reflecting her time spent living there, as well as the artwork of Aaron Douglas and Romare Bearden. The continuity of the characters - the prince, the princesses, the king and queen, and the traveling princess who spends the night on the bed above the pea - maintains the primary building blocks of the original story, allowing the author to frame it in such a way that its appeal is renewed and broadened. Her tight focus remains on the prince and his quest for the right princess to be his bride. She seamlessly keeps to the elements of Andersen’s original tale while moving the locale to Africa. Rachel Isadora’s writing style is serene and elegant, quite befitting the story of royalty. And like any good fairy tale, the two marry and live happily ever after. Seeing his family’s overnight guest awaken bruised and restless in the morning, the prince is overjoyed to meet a woman so delicate that she must be a true princess. She says she’s a princess and the prince’s clever mother devises a simple plan to determine the princess’s veracity - a single pea tucked under more than three dozen mattresses and feather beads. One night, a traveling woman asks for refuge in the palace from a terrible storm. But in the prince’s opinion, something isn’t right about each and every one of them. From far and wide come women to meet the prince, each identifying herself as a real princess. Setting her story in Africa, Isadora tells the story of a prince searching for a true princess to marry. The well-known Hans Christian Andersen tale of the princess and the pea gets an international adaptation in this version by veteran award-winning children’s book writer and illustrator Rachel Isadora (author of the Lili at the Ballet series). Re-told and illustrated by Rachel Isadora
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