Sleeping Beauty (Easy-Reading Series) by Ladybird

Sleeping Beauty (Easy-Reading Series) Reviews

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  Debbie W.

  One of my all-time favorite Ladybird books as a child! The story was enchanting, while the illustrations were stunning and even deliciously creepy when depicting the evil fairy!
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  booklady

  1) Be careful who you forget to invite to your daughter's christening?
  
  2) All bad things can be overcome given enough time? Or,
  
  3) Just enjoy a good story and forget about looking for the moral to it?
  
  Number three is the winner! There are morals and things to be gleaned from every story, but reading can be ruined by always looking for the point to it!
  
  When you have a tried and true romantic romance with a beautiful sleeping princess and a handsome prince coming in search of her, just read it, sigh deeply, dream and enjoy!!! 🥰
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  Gerry

  It is very rare for a Ladybird book to let the reader down and this one is no different. Expertly retold by Vera Southgate with beautiful illustrations by Livia Coloji bring the story to life.
  
  It is the classic fairy tale: the king and queen have a daughter who they, and their people, adore. Twelve fairies bring gifts to the christening feast but after 11 had been presented a wicked fairy emerges and bestows a curse on the princess. She tells the king and queen a spindle with prick the princess' finger when she is 15 years old and she will fall down dead.
  
  The 12th fairy offers a partial solution to the problem in that she determines that the princess will only fall asleep but nevertheless the king orders all spindles to be burnt. However one survives and, sure enough, the princess, having grown up happily, falls foul of it at age 15 and she falls asleep, as do the king, queen, townsfolk and animals.
  
  One hundred years later a handsome prince visits the kingdom, discovers everyone to be asleep and discovers the sleeping princess. He bends down gives hear a kiss and everyone, including the princess, wakes up and come back to life. The prince and princess marry and in the best tradition of fairy tales, they live happily ever after. Great and happy reading!
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  Clare O'Beara

  I read this when we were small, the little hardback was enjoyable and well illustrated. This one was seen as a tale for girls, who were given stories about princesses and sleeping beauties. In general boys were clearly expected to go out and have adventures. Girls were not, or they met savage beasts in the forest. Here a girl has to live indoors and be rescued by a man. She doesn't get a choice about whom she marries. An older woman is the villain... old women were easy targets for blame.
  I think it's important to tell the old fairytales to children as otherwise they won't know the stories in today's jumble of other entertainments and games.
  This is an unbiased review. I have not read a new edition.
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  Sarah Baines

  Sleeping Beauty is another of my childhood favourites. It's amazing how my mind reacts to these books now I'm older. As a child I just accepted them without question but now I couldn't help but think that if the 100 years is coming to an end anyway, can the Prince really be credited with waking her up?? Also essentially she's still only 15, so he kissed and married a 15 year old??? Or is she now classed as being 115??? Questions, questions!!!!
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  Dane Cobain

  It’s a bit weird that the prince decides to make out with a sleeping princess. But other than that, it’s an okay interpretation of the classic fairy tale.
  
  
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  Mahmoud Hussain

  I have quoted what exactly in my mind from Ladybird Sleeping Beauty "This is another well-loved tale in the Ladybird 'Easy-Reading ' series.
  young children will enjoy having this story read to them ,and seeing the delightful illustrations. Children who need extra reading practice will be encouraged by the clear type and relative simple text"
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  Maxine

  I'd forgotten about the spinning wheels. I think the narration has changed somewhat I remember something about a scullery boy about to have his ears boxed when they all fell asleep...... Wasn't in this version.
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  Shahmeer

  I read this book a long time ago!!