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Contemporary Fiction · 1981 · G

Sleeping Ugly

by Jane Yolen

A beautiful but mean princess and a plain but kind girl get tangled up with a sleeping spell

ForAll agesGenreContemporary FictionLength64 pagesRead time~1 hours

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No violence

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No profanity

Sexual Content

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No sexual content

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No substance use

Emotional Intensity

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No significant psychological content

What this book is about

Princess Miserella is beautiful and terrible; Plain Jane is kind and good. When a fairy accidentally puts all three of them — including a woodsman's grandmother — to sleep, only the prince can wake them. But he has to choose. Yolen's funny subversion of the sleeping beauty tale is sharp about the difference between appearance and worth.

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