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32 pp.
| Houghton |
November, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-544-28279-7$16.99
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Illustrated by
Sue Heap.
Tomorrow is Very Little Sleeping Beauty's birthday party. Too excited to sleep, she sneaks around the castle and finds one of her gifts: a spinning wheel. The fragmented plot pales in comparison to Heapy's previous recastings of a fairy-tale protagonist as an exuberant modern-day toddler (Very Little Red Riding Hood; Very Little Cinderella), but Heap's scenes of "castle" life continue to be enchanting.