Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories

by Rochelle Larkin (Editor)

Here are some of the greatest stories of all time. The familiar titles, like Sleeping Beauty, are stories about things that are still important to us today, like families and loyalty, friendship and courage, getting along and making dreams come true. In this book, you will find stories that are favorites already, and others that will be new to you, but are sure to become your favorites too. Illustrated - 237 pages

Genres: Fantasy, Classics, Childrens, Fairy Tales, Fiction

236 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Rochelle Larkin, who has written more than two dozen books, lives with her children in New York City.

Reviews

[Meriam Brooks]

My mom had this book in her library since I was a little kid so now I have an almost 5yo little boy and decided to read it to him. For some bizarre reason, we kept reading it. Every story. When I tell you that each story ended in the most ridiculous way possible, I’m not over-exaggerating. We started off reading the 2-3 actual classic stories that I already knew (Sleeping Beauty, The Elves and the Shoemaker, and maybe another one…) and then every other story after that had my husband and I completely appalled.

I really wouldn’t recommend this for younger kids. The English is pretty old and difficult to understand, though somehow my 5yo followed along just fine and wanted to keep reading it. There were plenty of older words I didn’t even understand, though, so I have no clue how he was able to follow along likely not knowing many of the words in general. Anyways, I should’ve also edited what I read more because some of it was awful (like a man being asked to cut him wife in half).

Most of the stories did NOT have good moral messages like you would hope! We never knew where the story was going and we were always confused by the ending. I think the best use of this book could be to use it for a creative writing exercise. Read the story and then fix it so it makes sense and actually teaches a decent life lesson.

All this to say, weird stories. Maybe I just haven’t read old fairy tales before and I’m uncultured but sheesh! Disney made any of the best ones palpable but this book is full of the worst ones.

[Wasif]

This book have many other stories, and all was fun to read. A girl was sleeping for many year finally someone come to rescue her. Almost all the book was fantasy and they very interning to read.

[Sam Weigert]

Book filled with a bunch of old stories, like Sleeping Beauty, and stories that have been passed down.

[Asha Limbu]

very good

[Maria]

This book has many different stories about fairytale and tall tales and adventure stories.

[Lauren Risner]

Sleeping Beauty is a classic, and the great-illustrated classics helps to identify that. The version of this story is written in poetry, which is unique because I don't remember reading it in a poetic way before. I know Sleeping Beauty was one of my favorite stories when I was growing up, so I would keep it in the classroom to keep my students interested.

[Jeremy]

The writing style is very old. Not quite King James old, but foreign enough to sound very confusing to today's young children.