Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty
Retold by: Mahlon F. Craft
Illustrated by: Kinuko Y. Craft
SeaStar Books, 2002
29 Pages
Fantasy

                Have you ever wondered if maybe the story of Sleeping Beauty wasn't true? That maybe it could have happened differently? Maybe the wicked Medusa didn't exist.. Maybe it was another fairy that caused Aurora to go into a deep sleep? Find out in this retold version of Sleeping Beauty.

                The artwork used by Kinuko Y. Craft is amazing.  Craft did a great job at capturing the beauty of this story and showing it on many of the pages.  The book was prepared by using oil over water over on Strathmore illustration board.  The pictures will capture the attention of both the children and adults.

                For this book I would first have my students compare and contrast this story to the original. I would have them each write three differences and three things they have alike.  Then I would have my students look closely at the pictures and allow them to look on the internet and see if they can find illustrations just like the ones in this story.  Then I would have my students do a math lesson counting to 100. Then if they were older I would have them calculate how many hours she was asleep for those 100 years.