Waking Beauty

By Leah Jean Wilcox

Book Overview

Everyone knows Sleeping Beauty has to be woken with a kiss, except Prince Charming. Every time the fairies watching over her try to tell him, he interrupts with his ideas of how to wake her. Eventually he gets the message, and his reaction is priceless- 'One hundred years of morning breath Wow! That could be the kiss of death!' With just as much interactive fun as Falling for Rapunzel (an IRA Notable Book and the winner of Maryland's Black-Eyed Susan Picture Book Award), this fractured fairy tale will elicit laughter that no one will be able to sleep through.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399246150
• ISBN13: 9780399246159
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

Love it!

This book is SO funny! We love it as much as we love Falling for Rapunzel! Clever, cute illustrations and just plain funny!

Wonderful!

My little princess keeps all of her princess books in one pile in her room so we can read them over and over and over ... Needless to say, I quickly tired of the traditional tales. This book, however, is delightful! My daughter and I laughed and laughed ...

Original and hilarious!

Leah Wilcox' rhyming, offbeat send up of the Sleeping Beauty story is hilarious. My children and I all love it - even my boy, who has endured so many princess stories for his sister's sake that he hates them on principle, thinks this book is a riot. But the humor is sweet, not cynical, and leaves them both rolling. They also love Lydia Monks' illustrations, and study them intently searching for the "real" textures and the "drawn" ones. I love everything about this book! Also look at their other collaboration, Falling for Rapunzel.

Entertaining for All

I love this book! My daughter still laughs at the princes failed attempts to wake up this sleepy princess. And I have to admit, I laugh a little too. It's a witty take on a old classic. I recommend it to everyone.

A Dreamy Prince Meets His Match

The beautiful girl has been asleep for years and the fairies are desperate to find a prince to help the damsel in distress. An unsuspecting dragon seeking prince will do perfectly... too bad he doesn't like girls! The boy's attempts to wake the sleeping girl without a kiss are delightful. Boys and girls will adore this tale. This silly book is a perfect read aloud.