Sleeping Beauty's Daughters by Diane Zahler

Along the way, they make new friends, encounter a disembodied spirit, man-eating beasts and a sea monster, among other dangers. Thus the sisters embark on a choppily paced sea journey to find the long-lost fairy godmother they hope can lift the curse. The girls hope they'll have time to undo the spell, but Aurora pricks her finger and is soon fighting the pull of enchanted slumber. They are even more surprised to learn the reason for their sheltered upbringing is that 11-year-old Aurora has also been sentenced to sleep 100 years by the same vengeful fairy who cursed their mother.

Demure Princess Aurora and reckless Princess Luna are shocked to discover that their fragile mother is the Sleeping Beauty of fairy-tale fame. JTwo sisters quest to break a spell, even as one of them succumbs to the same curse that kept their mother asleep for 100 years. for if Aurora sleeps, she will not wake for one hundred years. From fearsome beasts to raging storms, many dangers befall them, yet they must not give up. Soon, in spite of all precautions, Aurora is struggling not to slip into an enchanted sleep.įrantic, the princesses accept the help of a young fisherman named Symon and embark on a daring ocean voyage to find their aunt-a fairy who may be able to break the spell. No one visits, the girls cannot stray beyond the castle walls, and all sharp objects are forbidden here.īut accidents will happen-particularly when an old curse still has power. The daughters of Sleeping Beauty, Princesses Aurora and Luna, have grown up in a cliff-top palace by the sea, where they are carefully protected by their parents. Briskly paced and full of lush descriptions, readers who enjoy the work of Shannon Hale and Gail Carson Levine will be swept away by this spellbinding novel.

The classic fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty is transformed into a dazzling new story of two sisters fighting a powerful curse by Diane Zahler, the acclaimed author of The Thirteenth Princess.

Sleeping Beauty's Daughters by Diane Zahler