The Princess and the Tin Box

"The Princess and the Tin Box" is a short story by James Thurber in the form of a modern fable.Tiffin, Jessica (2009). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KHt2hgiGrrsC&pg=PA38 Marvelous Geometry: Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale], pp. 38–39. Wayne State University Press It was first published in the September 29, 1945 edition of The New Yorker magazine and republished in 1948 in Thurber's The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings about Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures.Porton, Harriet D. (2013) [https://books.google.com/books?id=-UKSAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 Teaching the Standards: How to Blend Common Core State Standards into Secondary Instruction], pp. 13; 16; 27. R&L Education The story is widely used as a text in schools for teaching both writing skills and reading comprehension.