This is a beautiful tale from Hans Anderson's collection published in the 1840s. It is full of gentle messages; the value of books, the beauty of nature, the dangers of being too "high and mighty", too ambitious or sycophantic.
It is the story of a king living in a beautiful palace who does not realise that his most beautiful treasure is in his own garden but that he can not own it.
Another way of looking at the story is that it is about a greedy Prime Minister who gets his comeuppance.
Group sizes - Reception & Year 1 - 30
Years 2 or 3 - 60