She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and ventures into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. Weaving together hints of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty with a shimmering thread of dark magic, it will hold readers spellbound from start to finish. Parents may be concerned with the passionate same-sex kiss and the author’s apparent disdain for marriage.A thrillingly reimagined fairytale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell, now available as a gorgeous paperback enhanced with gloriously vibrant red ink highlights. Chris Riddell has won the Kate Greenaway award. Gaiman's narrative about strength, sacrifice, choice, and identity is no simple retelling.Īuthor Neil Gaiman: New York Times bestseller with Newbery and Carnegie Medals. The inventive tale is accompanied by intricate ink drawings, gilded with gold and packed with details-vines claustrophobically twist everywhere and expressions convey far more emotion than the words let on. The crazy adventure reminds the queen that she does, indeed, have choices. You guessed it, the old hag fell asleep and became the beautiful princess who was awakened by the queen’s kiss. Turns out the “Old Woman” was a princess, too, whose youth was robbed form her and given to an old hag. Yup – the queen delivers a “long and hard” kiss to the princess. The queen's kiss, shown in a sumptuous spread, wakes the princess. Yup – this tale also includes creepy zombies! They reach the castle to find a beautiful sleeping princess and an old woman. On their way, they encounter throngs of cobweb-covered sleepers who talk in their sleep and eventually begin to lumber after them. The queen, already feeling that marriage means the end of her ability to make choices in her life, gladly postpones her wedding, grabs her sword, and sets off with the dwarfs to get to the bottom of the magical curse. When three dwarfs learn of a sleeping plague spreading throughout the land, they alert their queen.
Rate how much you enjoyed this book: Quite a lotįor which gender would you recommend this book? Femaleįor which age group would you recommend this book? Grades 5 to 8Ī reimagined fairy tale: a Snow White-like queen meets a Sleeping Beauty-like princess in this mash-up where things are not what they seem.
Genre (check all that apply): Adventure folktale/myth/legend Author: Neil Gaiman/ Illustrated: Chris Riddell
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