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Hale, Bruce

Snoring Beauty

40 pp. | Harcourt | May, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-15-216314-3 $16.00
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Howard Fine. This parody of "Sleeping Beauty" gets points for inspired silliness (fairy Tintinnitus is half-deaf, leading her to cast a spell requiring not a "prince" but a "quince"); it loses a few for overloading the reader with gags and gimmicks, not all of them successful (e.g., the frog narrator who repeatedly says, "Yada yada, hippity-hop"). The watercolors capture the semi-grotesque medieval inanity.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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