Children's Book Reviews from Librarian Chrissy

Walking Beauty by Leah Wilcox (P Wilcox)

Talk about putting a humorous twist on an old fairy tale. Must of us know that in order to wake Sleeping Beauty, the prince must wake her with a kiss. However, the prince in Leah Wilcox’s Waking Beauty has some other creative of ways to try and awake the princess. Each time the fairy godmothers try to inform him there is only one way to wake her, he interrupts and comes up with another way to wake her on his own. He tries shooting her out of a cannon, pouring a pitcher of water over her head, and yelling in her ear. Finally, he listens to the fairy godmothers and wakes her with a kiss (even though the prince is completely grossed out about it!) But he’s in for a big surprise when he finally wakes her with a kiss!

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