BR2-07: The Frog Prince

Princess Poppy really doesn't want to marry Prince Humperdink. (He smells.) She's hoping a handsome prince will come and rescue her. Instead she ends up with a slimy frog―but might there be more to this frog than meets the eye?

     This story is about the princess and the prince. One day, Princess Poppy was furious. She never wants to marry Prince Humperdink because of his smell and smugness. So she went out from the palace to find another prince to marry. She took her golden ball which was her birthday present from her father, the King. When she walked to the palace pond, she was so cross and she didn't see the wobbly stone. So she slipped and fell face-first into the pond. Her beautiful golden ball flew out of her hands. "I'm in big trouble now," she thought. She looked down into the pond, hoping to see her ball. When she looked for her ball, she met a frog, and he said he could help her. So she asked him to fetch the ball from the deep, dark pond. But the frog must know a thing or two to broach some bargaining point. What was it? Let's read it!

Davidson, S. (2005). The Frog Prince. Usborne Young Reading.

Series: UYR1

Vocabulary: furious ひどく立腹した　smug うぬぼれの強い　slime ヘドロ　wobbly ぐらつく　fetch 取ってくる

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