"The Donkey Prince" is a short children's story written by Angela Carter

Angela Carter

Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works...

 and illustrated by Eros Kieth (who also the illustrator of Carter's Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady), it was first published in the USA by Simon and Schuster in 1970. It is based on the fairy tale The Donkey

The Donkey (fairy tale)

The Donkey is a German fairy tale collected by Brothers Grimm by Grimm's Fairy Tales.It is Aarne-Thompson type 430, The Donkey Bridegroom.-Synopsis:...

 by the Brothers Grimm

Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular...

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The illustrated version is currently out of print but the story itself can be found in "Don't Bet on the Prince" (1987) by Jack Zipes

Jack Zipes

Jack David Zipes is an American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota, who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes...

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