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Newfangled Fairytales
This collection of contemporary fairy tales puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes.
- King Midas is a workaholic banker who would rather play with his money than attend his son's little league baseball games.
- The Big Bad Wolf is running a successful scam on Little Red's Grandma until Little Red catches him in the act.
- The Three Bears invade Goldy's house because their forest home is being stripped to build a super highway.
- A Prince refuses to marry any of the grumpy princesses who lost sleep because there were peas under their mattresses.
- A clever princess pays a dragon to lose a fight so she can marry the man she loves.
The Girl Who Wanted To Be A Princess
Michelle Kosziowski desperately wants to be a princess until her wish comes true and she discovers what a pain royal life can be.
The Princess And The Pea
Original Plot
The story tells of a prince who wants to marry a princess, but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife. Something is always wrong with those he meets, and he cannot be certain they are real princesses. One stormy night a young woman drenched in rain seeks shelter in the prince's castle. She claims to be a princess, so the princes's mother decides to test their guest by placing a pea in the bed, covered by 20 mattresses and 20 featherbeds. In the morning, the guest tells her hosts that she endured a sleepless night, kept awake by something hard in the bed. The prince rejoices. Only a real princess would have the sensitivity to feel a pea through such a quantity of bedding. The two are married, and the pea is placed in the Royal Museum.
Newfangled Plot
This story starts off the same as the original but the prince doesn't fall in love with the princess because she is no longer beautiful and is grumpy after sleeping on the mattresses with the pea inside. This happens over and over with every princess he is suited to.
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