African Sleeping Beauty
By (Author) Kate Gale
Illustrated by Rachael X. Hobreigh
Red Hen Press
Red Hen Press
17th October 2000
United States
Children
Fiction
Paperback
32
Width 226mm, Height 147mm, Spine 5mm
45g
A bilingual English/Spanish picture book.
When Princess Riva is born, a witch predicts that she will drive away when she turns sixteen, and never return, but a wise woman says the princess will sleep and not wake unless she does so by her own efforts within five years, in a version of "Sleeping Beauty" set in an African kingdom.A witch predicts that Princess Riva will leave when she is sixteen and never return, but a wise woman says the princess will sleep and not wake unless she does so by her own efforts within five years, in an African "Sleeping Beauty."