Information for students
Author: Mahlon F. Craft Title: Sleeping Beauty
Book Genre: Traditional Publishing Info: SeaStar Books, 32 pp.
Summary: A beautiful and beloved princess, cursed by the one fairy who was not invited to her christening, pricks her finger on her sixteenth birthday and falls asleep for one hundred years, unless she is kissed by her one true love.
Personal rating: ****
Rationale: beautiful illustrations, realistic characters, problem solving, magical but believable, well-written, courage, survival, adventurous
Information for teachers
Reading level: 5.2 Interest level: k-5th
Thematic Areas: love, family, nature, good vs. evil, adventurous, animals, survival, magic, fairy tale, curses, witches
Content Areas: language arts, history
Potential Problems or Difficulties: N/A
Possible use in classroom: teacher can read aloud to the classroom for younger students. Discussion on what they liked and didn’t like about the story. Have students discuss what they would be missing if they had to be asleep for 100 years and when they wake up what they think would be different with the world then from now.
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