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El giro que le da a las historias de Blancanieves y La Bella Durmiente son muy interesantes y me pillaron por sorpresa, pues no es hasta el final que entiendes lo que verdaderamente está pasando. Igualmente, se me hizo corto, y entiendo que es una historia corta, pero el final se me hizo muy repentino. On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future - and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. Since I've read The Graveyard Book I wanted to read more books by both Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell. So when I found out that they were translating this book in my country, I was beyond excited and my expectations for this book were pretty high. And now, that I've read it, I can safely say that this book was just as good as I expected it to be. On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future – and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. Twisting together the familiar and the new, this perfectly delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents. Award-winning Neil Gaiman shows all his story telling skills in this gripping fusion of familiar fairy tales told in a dark-hearted version with some original characters. Especially a bold-hearted queen. Not far from where the queen lives, a princess is under the spell of an enchantress who has put a whole country to sleep. Despite it being the eve of her wedding day, the bold queen decides to take action. Slipping into her mail shirt she arms herself with her sword and sets off out of the palace accompanied by the three dwarves who will lead her through the tunnels…The dark magic, great courage and spell-binding imagination that power this story is perfectly realised in Chris Riddell’s awesome illustrations.
It is a wonderful take on fairy tales that we all know and love. A plague has swept the Kingdom and whole villages are coming down with 'sleep'. A wake-less state that can't be undone. Up the blooming stairs and past the blooming cook and what are you cooking now, eh, great land-arse, nothing in your pots and pans but dust and more dust, and all you ever do is snore.” It has elements of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, set in an echo of Middle Earth, led by the women who are largely absent in Tolkien's world, plus (male) dwarfs. All are nameless, the better for us to know them, and maybe be them. Enormous peaks of mountains separate the kingdoms of Dorimar and kanselaire. Kanelaire is rowdy as the wedding of their queen approaches. But Dormiar is silent as it mourns the spell that has put its princess to sleep.Unforgettable, unpredictable and utterly enchanting for anyone between the ages of seven and seventy -- Amanda Craig The New Statesman There are subtle changes to this adaptation of The Sleeper and the Spindle that make it far more magical. Part of it is the performances - you really can't go wrong with Gwendoline Christie - but also a few extended scenes that make the Queen all the more heroic by reminding her of what she's left behind and by giving her more of a challenge. There are also a few more details that make the story more of a journey and that make the ending feel far more wide with possibility. A wonderful book with beautiful illustrations and a new perspective on our most beloved fairytales. Once upon a time there was a queen. She had a troubled childhood, and lived in the shadow of her abusive, narcissist stepmother. It is hard to break the spell of manipualtive, hurtful personalities. But magic works both ways. Learn to use it to grow, and there will be choices.
This Christmas' offering was a radio play adaptation of The Sleeper and the Spindle, a book I really enjoyed reading. The art and the words weave a web of imaginative power, an inspiration for those of us who are tired of princesses marrying to be forgotten. Queens take the road less travelled by. And that makes all the difference. They fall asleep whatever they are doing, and they do not wake up,” said the sot. “Look at us. We fled the towns to come here. We have brothers and sisters, wives and children, sleeping now in their houses or cowsheds, at their workbenches. All of us.”Here, the story takes a turn toward the unexpected. As the queen soon finds out, the sleeping beauty isn’t Sleeping Beauty at all. Instead, she is the evil witch who has made a thrall army out of the whole kingdom using her sleep magic – by remaining asleep, she was able to keep the spell going, puppeteering all within its boundaries. The only person not affected by the spell is the original princess. She has been forced to wander the castle for the past seventy years, trapped inside, all alone, slowly aging into the old woman the queen had seen by the sleeper’s bedside. Let the prince stay at home; the princess, or in this case the queen, has it covered! Neil Gaiman’s story carries an overt feminist message, subverting traditional fairy tales. In “The Sleeper and the Spindle, the women take center stage, while the men exist on the periphery. Both the hero and villain are women, imbued with the power and agency to make their own decisions, whether good or bad.
Their reading added a different dimension to the words that I remember reading from the print version and made it sound almost new to me, and I love that. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-09-06 02:11:16 Associated-names Riddell, Chris, ill Boxid IA40229807 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The added humour made it so much fun and my favourite character of all was first dwarf Ralph Ineson, his rumbling Leeds/Yorkshire accent made great listening, he was cast perfectly and Neil Gaiman been added in himself as Home Secretary was a bonus touch.I got this book from the library but I can tell you it is going to be added to my bookshelves as I must have it. The story is so different and dark and good. The graphics are AMAZING! The pictures by Chris Riddell were FANTASTIC. But then I always knew they would be since reading The Edge Chronicles, he is an amazing illustrator. it just didn't feel particularly any of those things, i guess. the writing was meh for neil gaiman. everything was confusing because it was so short. there were some moments of tension that were gone within a paragraph. not enough worldbuilding, or character-building, or anything -building. NOT ENOUGH ANYTHING, REALLY. It seems every time I delve into the world of a retelling I begin by pointing out how much I didn’t care for the original. I guess it should come as no surprise that Snow White and Sleeping Beauty weren’t my idea of a great time when I was a kid either. In fact, the entire world of Disney princesses kinda creeps me out – unless it’s these kind of princesses . . . .
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