![]() ![]() The idea has lots of potential, but Yolen's thin novel fails to integrate the material smoothly. The trail finally leads Becca to the site of an extermination camp in Poland. ![]() ![]() Although Gemma always identified strongly with Briar Rose, the sleeping princess, no one had thought it anything but a bedtime story-but when a mysterious box of clippings and photos turns up after Gemma's death, hinting that the accepted version of Gemma's origins is untrue, Becca begins tracing the real story, which bears striking resemblances to Gemma's fairy tale. Rebecca Berlin (Becca), the sweet young heroine, fondly recalls the odd version of Sleeping Beauty that her grandmother (Gemma) often told her and her sisters. The latest in the Fairy Tales series begins with a provocative premise: retelling the story of Sleeping Beauty as a Holocaust memoir. ![]()
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