Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep by Gail Carson Levine

Sonora is a know-it-all struggling to find her place in the world, since everyone she tries to help seems to spurn her advice. There’s so much in this little book to love, honestly. Of course, as any brilliant princess would do, Sonora takes matters into her own hands and stashes her own private spindle - to be used when SHE deems is best to fall into a 100 year sleep. But when seven good-meaning fairies and one fairy thought dead show up to bless her with gifts, things get a little bit out of control! Suddenly, Sonora’s beautiful, graceful, ten times more brilliant than everyone else, and cursed to sleep when she pricks her finger inevitably on a spindle. Sonora begins her life as a typical, fairytale princess. Princess Sonora was a favorite from its first reading and still continues to be so!

Gail Carson Levine’s Princess Tales were my first introduction to retellings outside of the classic Disney films, and I have many fond memories of reading these books throughout my childhood. Review: This review was originally written for publication on Fairy Tale Central. In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Sonora, who is ten times smarter than anyone else, vows to choose for herself the best time to be pricked by the spindle. All the familiar ingredients.īut wait! Where did that extra prince come from? And those fairy gifts that were never there before? And what does a flock of balding sheep have to do with anything? Sonora was nevery lonely again.Title: Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep

A very curios prince herd that and went and searched for the place. The sheep were losing there wool the sepherd said that sonora would know.

One day in a neiboring kingdom an incident acured and all the shepherds went to talk. Years went by and the only person how knew of the sleeping castle was a sphered who passed down the secret to his children. One day when she was seventeen she heard her mother screem and ran down the hall towards her, but her mother was carining a spindle and she pricked her finger and fell asleep. One of her gifts was brilliance, she was ten times smarter then every human, but the people were intimidated by that. When the last fairy bestowed her gift she changed the other fairy's curse, so that snora and the whole castle would mearly fall asleep and one day a prince would find her and she would be awaken by his kiss. The curse said that one day she would prick her finger on a spindle and die. This story is about a baby named sonora who is given many gifts from faries, but one fariy was not invited and put a horrible curse upon her before the last fairy gave her own gift.

Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep by Gail Carson Levine