The Prince and the Parsnip

Inspired by the tale of the Princess and the Pea, well-known children’s author Vivian French tells the story of Princess Sue who seeks a prince using a royal parsnip test!Inspired by the tale of the Princess and the Pea, well-known children’s author Vivian French tells the story of Princess Sue who seeks a prince using a royal parsnip test!Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.Children can recap the stages that Sue had to go through to find her prince using the story map on pages 14–15.Text type: A retelling of a traditional taleCurriculum links: Literacy