Under the evil curse, she falls into a deep sleep for 100 years, until someone who loves her more than life itself kisses her. MERCER MAYER began writing and illustrating children’s books in 1966, and since that time, he has published over 300 titles. In this folktale, a princess who is cursed by the wrathful Blue Faerie, on the day she is born, pricks her finger on her seventeenth birthday. Sleeping Beauty Mayer, Mercer Published by Atheneum(1984) ISBN 10: 0027653404ISBN 13: 9780027653403 NewHardcoverQuantity: 1 Seller: GoldBooks (Austin, TX, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Hardcover. This wordless picture book traces the life of a typical English castle from the 1170s, when the Normans built it, through a civil war in the 1600s, through the two world wars in the twentieth century, to the 1970s, when it is opened to the public. The Sleeping Beauty retold and illustrated by Mercer Mayer, and The Sleeping. I also highly suggest Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like and Sleeping Beauty.

This classic fairy tale is about a strange little man who helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king, with the condition that she will give him her firstborn child.ĭescribes the preparation and celebration of a medieval feast held at an English manor house entertaining royal guests. The connotative aspect of the Sleeping Beauty illustrations is its most. Beauty and the Beast by Marianna Mayer, illustrated by Mercer Mayer.

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