Another classic fairy tale we get from Egmont is Sleeping Beauty . The plot is well known, the characters are liked, and the edition fits perfectly into the previous volumes in the Classic Disney Fairy Tales in Comics series .
Adaptation of a great film story
As it happens in fairy tales and fairy tales, behind the mountains, behind the forests, in a distant kingdom, a beautiful princess is born. However, due to a series of unfortunate circumstances, an almost impossible curse is placed on the newborn girl. To save Princess Aurora, three good fairies, Flora, Hortensia and Niezabudka, decide to take her from the castle and protect her from the consequences of the spell. And maybe this story would have ended well, if not for the princess’s sixteenth birthday and Cupid’s arrow, which forever linked Aurora’s fate with the handsome prince. Not only her, because the evil witch is then on the trail of the princess and is sure that she will not escape her now.
Sleeping Beauty from 1959
The series published by Egmont will easily appeal to the youngest readers, but not only them. Both the plot and the graphics will bring to mind the original animated films produced by Walt Disney, inspired by, among others, folk fairy tales, which for older recipients, often parents or grandparents, is an epilogue to a journey to the past! Sleeping Beauty told in the comic book is just such a travesty – strongly inspired by the film Sleeping Beauty , premiered in the 1950s and 1960s. 20th century in Europe, and therefore a fairy tale in the interpretation of Charles Perrault* with the same title.
From the reviewer’s perspective
I won’t surprise you, dear readers, by writing that comics are from the Disney series. Classic fairy tales are worth having in your collection, as I have already recommended many of them: The Lion King , The Tramp in Love , Aladdin , Snow White and Alice in Wonderland . Sleeping Beauty is another comic book with an inspiring message, and although the intricacies of the plot, especially the motivations of the characters and their goals, may seem a bit naive, it is a story that has enjoyed the sympathy of audiences for many years, and which we do not usually analyze from this angle. It is worth using the reviewed volume to encourage the youngest to engage in the activity of reading. It can also be told to the youngest, based on the proposed travesty.
Accessories
At the beginning of the volume there is a Gallery of Characters presenting the heroes of the story, and at the end there are Memories , i.e. frames not included in the Story . The comic book was translated from English by Mateusz Lis, and the author of the adaptation of the original film script for the first edition is Régis Maine. The next offering from the Egmont publishing house will be Beauty and the Beast , which I am already waiting for impatiently. I hope you do too!
