Once upon a time there was... something else. Sleeping Beauty

Early readers explore the familiar fairy tale Sleeping Beauty – but just a tad different.

- New book in this series of well-known fairy tales, rewritten for early readers
- In this version of Sleeping Beauty, the prince is bewitched and a girl uses a special technique to wake him up
- With simple words, short sentences and the typical structure of a fairy tale

Dad 1 and dad 2 are over the moon: they have a son! His aunties come to visit and everyone of them wishes him the most beautiful things. Except for auntie 13 ... She wasn’t invited. Furiously, she curses the boy: on his 15 birthday he will die because of a prick. Luckily, auntie 12 has one wish left. ‘You shall not die, but sleep for a very long time,’ she says.
And then it’s time: the boy turns 15 ...