"In this modern version of "Sleeping Beauty," Brendan is fascinated by the house on Willow Avenue, and by the story the mysterious school nurse tells him of the girl trapped within--but though he manages to free the Sova family, the enchantment still lingers, even onto the next generation"--Provided by publisher.
Shrek, his ogre sensibilities tested by the adoring fairy tale creatures that live near his swamp, decides to tell them his version of "Sleeping Beauty" in hopes they will go away.
Combines rhyme and prose to retell the story of Sleeping Beauty, casting the heroine as the daughter of King and Queen Dormouse, who falls into a long, deep, sleep, but awakens to find her dreams of love have come true.
American graduate student Ivan Smetski, haunted by the vision of a sleeping princess he believes he saw as a ten-year-old boy while exploring the Carpathian forest, returns to his native land to investigate and, with one kiss, is drawn into a world that vanished a thousand years earlier.
A retelling of the "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tale, relating events from the perspectives of the young princess and her valiant prince--whose mother has ogre blood.
American graduate student Ivan Smetski, haunted by the vision of a sleeping princess he believes he saw as a ten-year-old boy while exploring the Carpathian forest, returns to his native land to investigate and, with one kiss, is drawn into a world that vanished a thousand years earlier.