Snoring Beauty

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Snoring Beauty

Title:

Snoring Beauty

Added Title:

Sleeping Beauty.

Author:

Hale, Bruce, author.

Fine, Howard, 1961- illustrator.

Summary:

An adaptation of the traditional tale, featuring a sleeping, snoring princess who is rescued by a prince after being cursed by a bad fairy.

Audience:

2.9 Follett Library Resources

K-3 Follett Library Resources

General Note:

A variation of the tale of "Sleeping Beauty."

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

[44] p. : col. ill. ; 26 x 29 cm.

Genre:

Fairy tales.

Fractured fairy tales.

Picture books.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR. LG 3.2 0.5 123645

Subject Term:

Sleeping Beauty (Tale) -- Adaptations -- Juvenile fiction.

Folklore -- Germany.

Fairy tales -- Adaptations -- Juvenile literature.

Author(s):

Fine, Howard, 1961-

Publisher:

Harcourt,

Publication Date:

2008

ISBN:

9780329786502

9780152163143

Publication Information:

Orlando : Harcourt, c2008.

Call Number:

P HALE

Holds: Copies:

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Everyone knows the story of Sleeping Beauty: A handsome prince rescues a beautiful princess from a wicked fairy's terrible sleeping spell.

This story is just like the original. Except for the sarcastic frog narrator, the garlic-scented fairy, and--oh yeah--the princess in this book not only sleeps and snores . . . she's also been turned into a hot-pink and purple dragon!

Certain to charm and delight fairy tale fans across the land, this raucous retelling is anything but a snoozer.

Author Notes

Born near Los Angeles and currently living in Santa Barbara, Bruce Hale has written nearly 20 books. Before becoming a full time writer Hale had a variety of jobs including deejay, gardener and actor. He also lived briefly in Hawaii, inspiring the setting for his books featuring Moki the Gecko. When not writing, Hale is often speaking at schools all over the country. Hale has also taught writing workshops at several colleges and universities and in 1998 received a grant to teach and study in Thailand.

Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 2-5-Princess Marge, daughter of King Gluteus and Queen Esophagus, who is nearly doomed by an irate fairy to homicide by a pie wagon, has the harsh sentence modified by another ("half-deaf") fairy, Tintinnitus. The princess will become a sleeping dragon and will "one day" be awakened by "a quince." Although all pies (and pie wagons) are banned by the king, the "kind and beautiful, sweet and clever" princess has her foot run over by a suspicious but unrecognized pie wagon on her 16th birthday and becomes a loudly snoring dragon. You know the rest! Hale's sassy, tongue-in-cheek tale may sound like just another silly "Sleeping Beauty" rewrite. However, enriched by Fine's large, double-page watercolor paintings with their whimsical human visages, distinctive fairies, and frog courtiers; the inimitable sleeping dragon princess; a repetitive refrain ("Yada, yada, hippity-hop"); and those cacophonous snores, this fantastic story is a delightful treat that begs to be read aloud.-Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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