African Sleeping Beauty
Kate Gale, illustrated by Rachael X. Hobreigh
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A bilingual English/Spanish picture book.
When Princess Riva is born, a witch predicts that she will drive away when she turns sixteen, and never return, but a wise woman says the princess will sleep and not wake unless she does so by her own efforts within five years, in a version of "Sleeping Beauty" set in an African kingdom.A witch predicts that Princess Riva will leave when she is sixteen and never return, but a wise woman says the princess will sleep and not wake unless she does so by her own efforts within five years, in an African "Sleeping Beauty."
