She ever banashed everything sharp form the whole town. Her mother was always watching over her and keeping her away from everything sharp. In the first half of the book it was talking about what happened before Princess Rose fell into a deep sleep. The book Sleeping Beauty: The One Who Took the Really Nap by Wendy Mass was a great exciting bookmark that was one of my favorites. Still, some touches are better than none at all, and the book’s certainly short and sweet enough to please fairytale-lovers, especially those on the younger side. I understand that that might be a bit much for middle grade readers (which this book is clearly aimed towards), and it’s highly possible that most people won’t feel this gap in the way that I do-I guess after being spoiled by Anna Sheehan’s incredible A Long, Long Sleep, I can’t read a Sleeping Beauty story without wanting to explore the story’s psychological ramifications. I would have loved a longer version of this book where everything that Mass wrote still happens, but there would be an additional amount of time really detailing Rose’s grief-which is not the sort of thing that you snap out of in a couple of hours-as well as her recovery. Mass’s book is pleasant, and there is nothing within it that I would dispose of, but its shortness and fun approach leave the story with a noticeable hole. It would have been easy to just have the entire kingdom sleep with Rose for a hundred years (as they do in most versions) and alleviate this tragic element, but Mass only has Rose sleep and, as a result, she wakes up to a lot of loss and, while the horror of this is touched upon, it is largely skimmed over-which is hard to buy since anyone in that situation would clearly be having a full-on meltdown or, at the very least, not smiling at the prince and discussing marriage. The only problem with this book, really, is that its decision to acknowledge the dark, sad undercurrents of the fairytale doesn’t really gel with the overall fluffy and lighthearted tone. It’s even smart enough to engage with some of the more thought-provoking elements of the story-like, Who is Rose if so many of her traits were assigned to her at birth by fairies? or, How distraught would she be at losing her whole family?-rather than completely glossing over them. It’s a pretty straightforward imagining of the original material, with some added elements and expansion on the characters if you’re looking for a retelling that really twists the Sleeping Beauty story on its head, this is not it, but if you just want to experience this fairytale again through slightly different eyes, this is a wonderfully breezy way to do so. I have always loved the Sleeping Beauty story, and Wendy Mass’s retelling (which I didn’t know existed until a couple of months ago) is an enjoyable, quick take on it.

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