Andersen's shortest fairy tale is the princess and the pea. The Princess and the Pea (picture story)

About the fairy tale

The Princess and the Pea: A Short Tale of Cunning and Tenderness

The great Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen left a huge number of brilliant fairy tales as a legacy to mankind. The author himself did not like being called a children's storyteller. Because, as Hans claimed, he wrote smart stories for adults. His fairy tales contain a meaning that parents must first understand, and then convey the words of the great writer to the new younger generation.

Note to readers!

G. H. Andersen was the most popular foreign writer in the USSR. Over 70 years in the period from 1918-1988, more than 500 editions of the great storyteller were published with a total circulation of 100,000,000 copies.

Descendants must say a huge thank you to the Russian translator of Scandinavian writers Anna Vasilievna Ganzen. It was she who did a titanic job, translated into Russian and conveyed to Russian-speaking readers the meaning of brilliant fairy tales. Many years have passed, and now any child or adult can get acquainted with the work of the kind storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.

The benefits of smart fairy tales for child development

Dear readers, all the popular fairy tales of the famous Danish writer are posted on our picture pages. We are trying to preserve the Soviet literary heritage and convey to children the beauty of the Russian word.

Read fairy tales with children and feel the benefits for their harmonious development:

- Large letters and large print on the pages will allow you to quickly memorize words and whole sentences.

- Colorful illustrations will help visualize the events from the fairy tale and imagine the main characters.

- Reading at night has a good effect on the child's nervous system, calms and helps to see beautiful fairy-tale dreams.

Fairy tales are meant for family reading aloud. This is a great opportunity to spend time with children and pass on the experience of older generations to them.

Dear parents, kindergarten teachers, school teachers! Use good smart fairy tales for the harmonious development of kids. Did you have a free minute? Read a fairy tale to a child, and another sprout of goodness, light and faith in a happy future will sprout in his soul.

About the plot of the short fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"

How is the plot of a new magical story born in the storyteller's head? Very simple! He looks at some object or observes a natural phenomenon, and fantasy begins to work and create new images in the imagination. For example, when Andersen found a piece of tin in the ashes, he immediately imagined a one-legged tin soldier. Only a real genius's imagination gives birth to unusually beautiful fairy tales!

How did the princess and the pea appear? Most likely, the writer saw an unfortunate wet girl on the street and thought that she could be a princess. And then he came up with a lonely prince who has been looking for his true soul mate all his life.

Further, the writer drew in his imagination the castle, where the wet princess knocked. And what did the cunning queen do? She decided to give the girl a test. The prince's caring mother put one dry pea under 20 mattresses and under 20 featherbeds. And the princess could not sleep all night because something was disturbing her!

Is it true? It is hard to say!

Maybe the queen, in order to marry her son, decided to go for a little trick? Most likely, she hinted at the hidden pea to the princess. In order for the young to find happiness, did the queen wrap everyone around her finger? Everything can be, we don’t know the answers, and we invite the guys to think out the plot of a simple short fairy tale on their own.

Once upon a time there was a prince, he wanted to marry a princess, but only a real princess. So he traveled all over the world, looking for such, but everywhere there was something wrong; there were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real, he could not fully recognize this, there was always something wrong with them. So he returned home and was very sad: he really wanted a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm broke out; lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, the rain poured like buckets, what a horror! And suddenly there was a knock at the city gates, and the old king went to open the door.

The princess was at the gate. My God, what did she look like from the rain and bad weather! Water dripped from her hair and dress, dripped right into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and she said that she was a real princess.

"Well, we'll find out!" thought the old queen, but she said nothing, but went into the bedchamber, took all the mattresses and pillows off the bed, and laid a pea on the boards, and then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and on the mattresses twenty more eiderdown duvets.

On this bed they laid the princess for the night.

In the morning they asked her how she slept.

Ah, terribly bad! the princess replied. I haven't closed my eyes all night. God knows what I had in bed! I was lying on something hard and now I have bruises all over my body! It's just awful what it is!

Then everyone realized that in front of them was a real princess. Why, she felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdown duvets! Only a real princess can be so tender.

The prince took her as his wife, because now he knew that he was taking a real princess for himself, and the pea ended up in the cabinet of curiosities, where she can be seen to this day, if only no one stole her.

Know that this is a true story!

Read, watch and listen to children's fairy tales:

Information for parents: The Princess and the Pea is a famous short fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. From the first lines, it takes the young reader, or rather the reader, into the world of princesses. Children will be interested to know what test a girl needs to pass in order to prove that she is a real princess. Read the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea" before going to bed for children from 4 to 8 years old.

Read The Princess and the Pea

Once upon a time there was a prince, he wanted to marry a princess, but only a real princess. So he traveled all over the world, looking for one, but everywhere there was something wrong. There were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real, he could not fully recognize this, there was always something wrong with them. So he returned home and was very sad: he really wanted a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm broke out: lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, the rain poured down like a bucket, what a horror! And suddenly there was a knock at the city gates, and the old king went to open the door.

The princess was at the gate. My God, what did she look like from the rain and bad weather! Water dripped from her hair and dress, flowed straight into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and she said that she was a real princess.

"Well, we'll find out!" - the old queen thought, but she didn’t say anything, but went to the bedchamber, removed all the mattresses and pillows from the bed and put a pea on the boards, and then she took twenty mattresses and put them on the pea, and on the mattresses another twenty feather beds made of eider down.

On this bed they laid the princess for the night.

In the morning they asked her how she slept.

“Ah, terribly bad! the princess answered. I haven't closed my eyes all night. God knows what I had in bed! I was lying on something hard, and now I have bruises all over my body! It's just awful what it is!

Then everyone realized that in front of them was a real princess. Why, she felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdown duvets! Only a real princess can be so tender.

The prince took her as his wife, because now he knew that he was taking a real princess for himself, and the pea ended up in the cabinet of curiosities, where she can be seen to this day, if only no one stole her. Know that this is a true story!

Once upon a time there was a prince, and he wanted to take a princess for himself, only a real one. So he traveled all over the world, but there was no such thing. There were plenty of princesses, but were they real? Before that, he could not reach in any way; so he returned home with nothing and was very sad - he really wanted to get a real princess.

One evening a bad weather broke out: the lightning flashed, the thunder rumbled, and the rain poured down like a bucket; what a horror!

Suddenly there was a knock on the city gates, and the old king went to open the door.

The princess was at the gate. My God, what did she look like! Water ran from her hair and dress straight into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, but she still assured that she was a real princess!

"Well, we'll find out!" - thought the old queen, but did not say a word and went into the bedroom. There she removed all the mattresses and pillows from the bed and laid a pea on the boards; she laid twenty mattresses on top of the pea, and twenty more down jackets on top.

The princess was laid on this bed for the night.

In the morning they asked her how she slept.

Ah, very stupid! - said the princess. I almost didn't close my eyes! God knows what kind of bed I had! I was lying on something so hard that my whole body is now bruised! Just awful!

It was then that everyone saw that she was a real princess! She felt the pea through forty mattresses and down jackets - only a real princess could be such a delicate person.

Once upon a time there was a prince, he wanted to marry a princess, but only a real princess. So he traveled all over the world, looking for such, but everywhere there was something wrong; there were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real, he could not fully recognize this, there was always something wrong with them. So he returned home and was very sad: he really wanted a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm broke out; lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, the rain poured like buckets, what a horror! And suddenly there was a knock at the city gates, and the old king went to open the door.

The princess was at the gate. My God, what did she look like from the rain and bad weather! Water dripped from her hair and dress, dripped right into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and she said that she was a real princess.

"Well, we'll find out!" thought the old queen, but she said nothing, but went into the bedchamber, took all the mattresses and pillows off the bed, and laid a pea on the boards, and then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and on the mattresses twenty more eiderdown duvets.

On this bed they laid the princess for the night.

In the morning they asked her how she slept.

Ah, terribly bad! the princess replied. I haven't closed my eyes all night. God knows what I had in bed! I was lying on something hard and now I have bruises all over my body! It's just awful what it is!

Then everyone realized that in front of them was a real princess. Why, she felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdown duvets! Only a real princess can be so tender.

Hans Christian Andersen

Princess on the Pea

Once upon a time there was a prince, he wanted to marry a princess, but only a real princess. So he traveled all over the world, looking for one, but there was something wrong everywhere: there were a lot of princesses, but whether they were real, he could not fully recognize this, there was always something wrong with them. So he returned home and was very sad: he really wanted a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm broke out; lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, the rain poured like buckets, what a horror! And suddenly there was a knock at the city gates, and the old king went to open the door.

The princess was at the gate. My God, what did she look like from the rain and bad weather! Water dripped from her hair and dress, dripped right into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and she said that she was a real princess.

"Well, we'll find out!" thought the old queen, but she said nothing, but went into the bedchamber, took all the mattresses and pillows off the bed, and laid a pea on the boards, and then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and on the mattresses twenty more eiderdown duvets.

On this bed they laid the princess for the night.

In the morning they asked her how she slept.

Ah, terribly bad! the princess replied. I haven't closed my eyes all night. God knows what I had in bed! I was lying on something hard and now I have bruises all over my body! It's just awful what it is!