LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

The Frog Princess retold by Alexander A. A king tells his three sons to shoot arrows and to find brides where their arrows land. While the two older sons find women to marry, a frog picks up the youngest son’s arrow. The king then orders each of the brides to complete a series of tasks such as spinning cloth and baking bread. In each of these tasks the frog far outdoes the other brides-to-be, as the frog uses magic to accomplish these tasks. At the end of the story, the frog princess is magically transformed back into a beautiful human girl and she and the prince live happily ever after.