Sleeping Beauty: Another Grandma Chatterbox Fairy Tale
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A retelling of the classic fairy tale for 21st century youngsters by a master storyteller.
We are all familiar with Sleeping Beauty, of course, but there is a lot more to her than a good long sleep. She did not just marry the handsome prince who woke her up and live happily ever after. Dear me, no. The story as we usually hear it today is a very much shortened version of the original.
Fairy Stories have been told for hundreds and hundreds of years. No one really knows when they started or who first wrote them - or told them I expect. They probably started before many people could read or write.
Anyway they have been told and retold and everyone who tells them alters them a little bit to suit themselves or to please the people listening.
So Grandma Chatterbox when she was younger (which was a long time ago) went round and about and over the hills and far away searching for the oldest versions of Fairy Tales which she could find.
So now Grandma Chatterbox is going to tell you Fairy Stories as close to the oldest versions that she can get. After all it is part of every child’s education to know all the traditional tales.
Puss in Boots was originally a French folk tale, written down by Charles Perrault in 1695.
Grandma Chatterbox just loves the old stories, and simply adores telling them to young children. The vocabularly and grammar in these stories is specially adapted to be suitable to younger children. When your children get a little bit older and start to learn to read you will find that the vocabulary contains words that they will be learning. Increase the type size on your tablet or other device and you can read along with your children.
So, are you ready for a story? Good, then I will begin...
About the Author
Barbara Hayes has been a best selling author of children’s books and comics for more than 40 years. She has been published around the world and in numerous languages. And yes - she really is a Grandma!
Barbara Hayes
Barbara Hayes worked on the editorial staff and spent many years writing stories and picture strip scripts for the Amalgamated Press, situated in Farringdon Street, which is round the corner from Fleet Street, London. Later Amalgamated Press became Fleetway Publications and subsequently part of the Daily Mirror IPC publishing group.Barbara was just in time to work with some of the old Fleet Street hacks in all their drunken glory before the move away from Fleet Street to modern technical respectability.She got advice straight from the lips of Hugh Cudlipp, the famous editor of the Daily Mirror, and became married to an Amalgamated Press editor, Leonard Matthews, who rose to be a managing editor and then an editorial director.Over the years she has had some 80 books and about 7300 scripts published by companies from England to Australia to South Africa to Florida and back to Holland.She likes to think of herself as an old hack writer who succeeded mainly because she always got her work in on time and the right length - but if you read on carefully you might find quite a few other hints to help you.
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Sleeping Beauty - Barbara Hayes
Grandma Chatterbox's
Sleeping Beauty
by
Barbara Hayes
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Published by Bretwalda Books at Smashwords
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First Published 2012
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Sleeping Beauty
Hallo everyone. Here is Grandma Chatterbox ready to tell you the story of Sleeping Beauty.
What a surprise Grandma had when she read the really, very old version she found of Sleeping Beauty. The first part of the story was like all the other more modern (only 400 or so years old) versions that Grandma had read.
But then came a second part about what happened after Sleeping Beauty awoke and married her handsome prince. They did not live happily ever after as folk usually do in Fairy Stories - dear