You think you know the tale of Sleeping Beauty? Think again. If you're an avid fan of fairytale re-tellings, this book is exactly the one for you as it managed to blow my mind on the classic tale I thought I knew so well (I so obviously didn't). Heroic Sacrifice: It's revealed the princess gave up her sleep and youth to the witch, to protect her people. When she became an old lady, that's when the curse spread. Not the ideal bedtime story for a toddler, perhaps, but a richly nuanced tale with a contemporary slant that will fire your imagination - and haunt your dreams. Rapid Aging: When the witch is defeated, she withers into dust. All the youth she stole from the world is returned. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices. She would reign over her people. She would have children. . . . the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable (14).

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Hoist by Their Own Petard: The witch ends up being defeated by her own magic when the princess stabs her with the very spindle that she was cursed by — 'a scratch is all that was needed'. Her wedding day was the next day, but she suddenly cancelled it. She begins to get all her necessary material for what seems to look like a fight, or war. The dwarfs talk about how wise the Queen is. In this book, the female role is much higher than other stories like this. In all other stories about Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, it was the man being brave and wise. The man always getting the spotlight unless it was about how pretty the princess was in her dress. I liked the way the illustrator drew the pictures with no colours, but included tints. I liked the cross-hatching instead of bright neat colours, the illustrator had used some incredible drawing skills. I admired how the author thought about the inscrutable, magical and deep forest. Furthermore, I think the characters are stunning and amazing, and the queen was able to save the sleeper and travel through all of those terribly sharp thorns that tried to get in her way. Usually a man is saving the day, saving the princess or town from DANGER. No, not this story. In fact, there is very little talk about men, besides the three dwarfs. In this story as you read you find that there was a spell cast on this small town, because of Sleeping Beauty. The people as well as the sleeping beauty have been asleep for some time now. Many have tried to save them, but all have failed.Book Genre: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Retellings, Sequential Art, Short Stories, Young Adult On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. The queen will decide her own future – and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. The result is a beautiful and coveted edition of The Sleeper and the Spindle that the Guardian calls "a refreshing, much-needed twist on a classic story." A queen prepares unenthusiastically for marriage and a future that is mapped out for her. When three dwarves inform her of a cursed kingdom where a princess and her people have lied asleep for decades, the queen decides to take up the challenge to save them, even though many have failed before her. Her upcoming wedding, with some relief, is put on hold. Gaiman encourages you to believe that, just like the Snow White, herself once condemned to a year’s unconsciousness, she would be the ideal person to save the day - but not everything is as it appears.

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Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close They had names, the dwarfs, but human beings were not permitted to know what they were, such things being sacred. The queen had a name, but nowadays people only ever called her Your Majesty. Names are in short supply in this telling.Which brings me to my main point because old literature based stories like the “Monty Python” there is always a princess that sits at the top of a guarded tower waiting to be rescued by her true love, Instead you have a prince trapped at the top of a tower watched by two foolish guards and with only one dream and that is to sing and not have to be married off unwillingly. Even the dwarfs, who were tough, and hardy, and composed of magic as much as of flesh and blood, could not go over the mountain range. This was not a problem for the dwarfs. They did not go over the mountain range. They went under it (10).