Sleeping Beauty

This book is published by Les éditions Caramel
Author: Tales inspired from Andersen, Grimm and Perrault

Illustrator: Jesús Lopez Pastor
Once upon a time, there lived a king and a queen who wished for a child of
their own for a long time. So when the queen gave birth to a beautiful
princess, they were very happy.
They invited important guests and all the fairies of the kingdom to their
castle for a celebration in honour of the child’s birth.
One after the other, as godmother, the fairies looking at the new born
princess, gave her gifts of beauty, grace, goodness, and intelligence.
But the king and queen had forgotten to invite the wicked fairy.
Furious, she appeared all of a sudden at the child’s crib and said in a husky
voice, “Here is my gift, little princess. On the day of your sixteenth birthday
you will prick your finger with the spindle of a spinning wheel and you
shall die!”
Then the wicked fairy disappeared, cackling.
The queen and the king were stunned as well as the entire assembly.
In her crib, little Aurora was still smiling being unable to realize her terrible
destiny!
Fortunately, one of the good fairy had not yet granted a gift to the princess.
She told the king and queen that although she couldn’t remove the curse,
she could do something to weaken it.
“When the princess turns sixteen, she will prick her finger, but instead of
dying, she will fall into a very long sleep that will last for hundred years.
By then, a young price will awake her by giving her a kiss,” replied the
good fairy.
“Also, in order for her to be surrounded by all her loving family and friends
upon her awakening, I’ll make sure that all the people living in this castle
will fell asleep and wake at the same time with her.”
But the king was taking no chances and he destroyed all the spinning
wheels he could find in his kingdom. The princess grew up and became a
beautiful young girl. When she returned to her room after her sixteenth
birthday party, she was surprised to find an old lady there with a strange
object she had never seen before.
“What’s that?” the princess asked the old lady, who was actually the wicked
fairy in disguise. “It’s a spinning wheel and it’s used to spin wool.
Come, I’ll show you how it works,” said the old woman. As soon as the
princess touched the spindle, she pricked her finger. She quickly felt very
tired. She lay down on her bed and fell into a deep sleep.
Everybody else fell asleep too, the king and queen, the guards, the servants,
everybody, except for the wicked fairy, who fled from the castle.
One day, with the sun shining brightly, a handsome young prince rode up a
hill near the castle. From a distance, he saw the castle towers peeping up
out of trees and bushes so dense that it seemed impossible for him to reach
it.
The prince was curious and decided to go and have a look.
As he galloped on his horse towards the castle, the trees and bushes parted
miraculously in front of him. Everything was strangely silent.
It didn’t take the prince long to reach the castle where, unbeknown to him,
Sleeping Beauty lay.
The prince entered the courtyard and found people lying on the floor.
He thought at first they were dead, but he soon realized they were only
asleep. “How strange this castle is, lost in the middle of the forest with its
silence and the sleeping guards. I’ll go inside and have a look,” he thought
to himself.
The prince entered the castle and in every room he met with the same sight.
People and animals were plunged into a deep sleep. He found the bedroom
of the princess and saw her lying on the bed. She was so beautiful that he
couldn’t take his eyes off her.
He bent down and gave her a kiss.
Immediately the young princess opened her eyes.
“I’ve waited so long for you!” she said.
And they fell in love with each other immediately.
Everybody in the castle suddenly woke up at the same time.
The king and queen were overjoyed to see their daughter again.
“We have been freed from the curse at last,” said the king.
“We will have the biggest wedding celebration ever in the castle for my
daughter and the prince,” he cried.
And the handsome prince married his princess, got many kids together and
lived happily ever after.
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The Brave Little Tailor
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Three Little Pigs
Beauty and the Beast
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
The Little Thumb
Puss in Boots
Little Red Riding Hood
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Cinderella
Peter Pan
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Author: Tales inspired from Andersen, Grimm and Perrault

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