The Frog Prince Saves Sleeping Beauty
is another entry in the Fairy Tale Mix-Ups series.Charlotte Guillaim stays within the basic parameters of the Sleeping Beauty Tale. There are fewer Fairy Godmothers but they follow the basic path of blessing, blessing, cursing, lessening the curse, although the first two gifts are more traditional then something one expects from a Fairy Godmother. This tale continues changing the spinning wheel to a more generic pointy item would prick the Princess enacting the curse. The parents too attempt to prevent the curse removing pointy items from their daughters life as much as any parent could attempt.
At the age of 10 the mash up begins as the Princess meets a frog and brings him home to live in a fish tank. After drawing a picture of her new pet, she decides to display her picture on the wall and to my surprise in a house that has banned pointy items the Princess has access to push pins and pricks herself falling into the sleep promised by the curse.
The three kindly Fairy Godmothers take pity on the family and put the castle to sleep until a Prince can be found to break the curse. Cue the Frog Prince who some how is not effected by the sleeping spell cast by the Fairy Godmothers. He then strolls over and gives a friendly kiss on the Princess' cheek. The Princess wakes up and the Prince is no longer a Frog as his curse has been broken, too. Since they are both children, their story ending is not a romantic one. At the end of the story they are off playing in the woods.
I am left wondering what happened to the poor boy's parents. Is his family gone? Do they not inform anyone that their little boy is restored?
While I've enjoyed these stories this is the second one that has left me wondering, but what about....
Haven't read the book, but today I am searching for books where the girls are the heros. I want to raise my girl to be strong and know they can do anythng they put their mind too.
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That is your choice.
ReplyDeleteOne of my goals with this Blog is to provide resources to parents, teachers and home schooling families to know what kinds of books are out there in a variety of genres, one of which is traditional tales and the multiple and alternate versions that exist. If you don't find these tales appropriate for your children then I don't push you to utilize them. I just provide options for those that do see them as a valuable literary resource.
Your educational choices as they should be are your own, just as those who continue to educate with traditional tales also have that right to use them as they choose.
Oh I just hate when I get to the end of a book and am left feeling like the story wasn't quite wrapped up. It sounds like a super cute premise though. Thanks for sharing with us at Love to Learn. Pinned
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