This is one fractured fairy tale that tidily sums up male/female relations since time began. It may be a children’s book but I’m sending a copy to my daughter’s college dorm!   Waking Beauty is a fun take on Sleeping Beauty. However, here the Prince is a skeptic.The fairies tell him has to wake the sleeping princess with a kiss, but why should he?  Hundred year old morning breath? No thank you. So he tries it his way—over and over–and you will laugh. Eventually, he must resort to the kiss. It works. She wakes . . . but is she happy? Hey, this is a book about men and women—of course not. I always judge children’s books by my own personal Nap Time Reading Quotient (NTRQ). If the book is too word dense or complicated, we’re not reading it. Waking Beauty is a nice read for the kids, fairly long but reasonable, and entertaining for me. Plus it has lots of fun characters to animate. NTRQ—High Five, Granny!

Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Published : 01/10/2008
Format : Hardcover , pages 32
ISBN-10 : 0399246150
ISBN-13 : 9780399246159