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Spindle's End
By McKinley, Robin
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39923-466-8
- Publisher
- New York : Putnam's Sons, 2000.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2000
Gr 7-Up McKinley once again lends a fresh perspective to a classic fairy tale, developing the story of "Sleeping Beauty" into a richly imagined, vividly depicted novel. At Princess Briar-Rose's name-day, the fairy Pernicia, feeling snubbed, presents the baby with a gift: a curse that will cause the princess to prick her finger on a spinning-wheel spindle on her 21st birthday, and fall into a sleep from which she will never awaken. To save the princess, the fairy Katriona spirits the infant away to her backwater home in the village of Foggy Bottom, where the child is raised as a village maiden. H...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
