Sleeping Beauty Retold
The Classic Story A princess is cursed by a jealous fairy to die on her sixteenth birthday after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. The girl’s fairy godmother alters the curse slightly — instead of dying, she will fall into an enchanted sleep for 100 years, until her true love comes to wake her with a kiss. Middle Grade
The Wide-Awake Princess (book 1 in the Wide Awake Princess series) E.D. Baker Princess Annie is the younger sister to Gwen, the princess destined to be Sleeping Beauty. When Gwen pricks her finger and the whole castle falls asleep, only Annie, blessed with being impervious to magic, can venture out beyond the rose-covered hedge for help. Available through: Overdrive
Beauty Sleep Cameron Dokey (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) On her sixteenth birthday, Princess Aurore learns that the curse laid on her at her birth will harm not only her, but the entire kingdom as well. Unwilling to cause suffering, she will embark on a quest into the enchanted forest to end the evil magic. Available through: WCDPL location
Sleeping Beauty: The One Who Took the Really Long Nap Wendy Mass (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) Princess Rose, a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty, and the Prince who awakens her from her deep enchanted sleep both share their stories of how they grew up, fell in love, and solved the problem of how to be together. Available through: Overdrive
Dream On (book 4 in Whatever After series) Sarah Mlynowski (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) Abby, her brother Jonah, and her friend Robin get sucked into the magic mirror and end up in the story of Sleeping Beauty, but when Robin pricks her finger and uses up the sleeping spell, Abby has to come up with a clever solution and a new happily-ever-after. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla (audio), WCDPL location
Sleeping Beauty’s Daughters Diane Zahler (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) Twelve-year-old Princess Aurora has been cursed to prick her finger and sleep for one hundred years, but before her fate can come to pass, she and her sister Luna embark on a perilous journey to find the fairy who can break the curse Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla Sleeping Beauty Retold
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The Healer’s Apprentice Melanie Dickerson (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) Seventeen-year-old Rose, a healer's apprentice, falls in love with the betrothed Lord Hamlin, who is seeking the sorcerer who cursed his future bride. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla
A Kiss in Time A Kiss in Time (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades seventeen-year-old Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a 300-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla
The Sleeper and the Spindle Neil Gaiman A brave young queen and her dwarf companions set out to rescue an enchanted princess who is not quite what she seems. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla, WCDPL location
Spindle Fire Lexa Hillyer When a drop of blood touched by faeries puts Aurora in a deep sleep, her blind half-sister Isabelle embarks on a dangerous journey to find the prince whose kiss of true love will waken Aurora. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla
Spindle (book 2 in the A Thousand Nights series) E.K. Johnston When a princess is born, a demon is ready with her final blow: a curse that will cost that princess her very soul, or force her to destroy her own people to save her life. Available through: Overdrive Sleeping Beauty Retold
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Spindle’s End Robin McKinley (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla (audio only), WCDPL location
Rose and Thorn (book 2 in the Ash and Bramble series) Sarah Prineas In this fairy tale retelling, a girl tries to fight the story of Sleeping Beauty before she falls under its spell. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla
Spindle Shonna Slayton When her wages at the spinning mill are cut, Briar Rose buys a spindle from a peddler hoping it will help her earn more money to take care of her siblings. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla
A Wicked Thing and Kingdom of Ashes Rhiannon Thomas One hundred years after falling asleep, Aurora wakes to the kiss of a handsome prince and a kingdom that has dreamed of her return, but her happily-ever-after seems unlikely as she faces grief over the loss of everything she knew and a cruel new king. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla