Sleeping Cinderella and Other Princess Mix-ups

by Stephanie Clarkson, Brigette Barrager (Illustrator)

Overview

Princesses Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Rapunzel swap fairy tales with one another in this hilariously clever new classic!



Once upon a time, four fairy tale misses,

tired of dwarves, witches, princes, and kisses,

so bored and fed up, or just ready to flop,

upped and left home for a fairy tale swap.



What happens when Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Rapunzel get so fed up with their fairy tales that they decide to switch places with one another? Hilarity ensues in this clever, rhyming story about whether the grass really is greener at someone else's castle.



Author Stephanie Clarkson crafts an incredibly witty manuscript, with rhymes that shine and predicaments that will make little girls everywhere laugh out loud, as illustrator Brigette Barrager brings these beautiful princesses to life with her rich, warm colors and charming retro-girl style!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545565646
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	01/27/2015
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	11.10(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD580L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Writer Stephanie Clarkson lives in leafy Surrey, England, with her husband, two young daughters, and a very hairy hound named Bob. Her ambition in life is to invent and patent an anti-mud device for dogs like Bob, who like hanging out in dirty puddles.Steph began her writing career as a journalist at Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, and she continues to write for the British press while dreaming up stories for children about strong-minded princesses and tech-obsessed owls.





Brigette Barrager is an artist, designer, illustrator, and writer of children's books. She attended the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned a degree in character animation. Brigette spent some time at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios before taking the plunge into freelance, where she's lived happily ever after. She resides in Los Angeles with her handsome husband, cute doggy, and a terrible cat.

Editorial Reviews

12/01/2014
K-Gr 3—In this rhyming story, Clarkson cleverly mixes and matches fairy-tale princesses into one another's tales, then reblends for truly happy endings. Fed up with housework, Snow White ditches the dwarves for Rapunzel's peaceful tower. Rapunzel is delighted to take over ball festivities for an exhausted Cinderella. Cinderella gladly curls up in Sleeping Beauty's cozy bed so the latter can find purpose socializing with the dwarves. Each girl finds a flaw in the new position, so she returns home after negotiating improvements. The dwarves help with chores, and Cinderella goes to college. Barrager's digital cartoons are wide-eyed and flat, colorful and funny. Fairy-tale fans will savor this practical take on familiar stories.—Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA

School Library Journal

2014-10-01
It rhymes. It has cute crossovers. It has doe-eyed princesses who are unhappy with their lots. Snow White is tired of cleaning up after seven dwarves, so she takes a walk and discovers the lonely tower of Rapunzel. Rapunzel is all too thrilled to get out, and Snow White wants to be alone, so they switch places. Trailing her impossibly long, blonde locks behind her, Rapunzel meets up with Cinderella, who would rather sleep than go to a ball. Leaving the pumpkin coach to Rapunzel, Cinderella finds Sleeping Beauty's bed and keels over into it, accidentally kissing the slumberer on the cheek, which wakens her. Bringing the story full circle, the no-longer-sleeping Beauty comes upon the dwarves' house, where there is Stuff! To! Do! In the end, of course, the princesses sort themselves back out, with Lessons: Snow White gives each dwarf a chore; Rapunzel negotiates a day trip each week; Cinderella opts for college over a prince; and Beauty discovers knitting is less prickly than spinning. Bright colors, strong line, and clearly differentiated hairstyles and clothing do not quite make up for something of a clunker at the end: "So, by talking things through and her problems amending, / each girl truly made her own fairy tale ending." It's a promising concept but a pallid conclusion. (Picture book. 5-7)

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