Jane yolen sleeping beauty6/23/2023 Yolen’s graceful retelling of the German folktale of “Briar Rose”-known to some as “Sleeping Beauty”-sets the story amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II. Her vow sends Becca on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma’s astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. Becca would have sworn the stories were made up, but on her deathbed Gemma extracts from Becca a promise to fulfill three impossible requests: find the castle, find the prince, and find the spell-maker. And in that place of death, Briar Rose is plunged into a deep sleep…Įver since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma’s stories of Briar Rose. Corrupted by dark deeds and choked by a poisonous mist, the castle will soon come to be known as Chelmno extermination camp. “ In the heat of midsummer 1942, deep in a forest in the heart of Poland, Briar Rose arrives at a castle that has fallen into the hands of an evil army.
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