{"product_id":"9780060280642","title":"Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep","description":" \u003cp\u003eA spiteful fairy. A beautiful princess. An outstretched finger. A spindle. A hundred-year snooze. A charming prince. A kiss. All the familiar ingredients.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut wait! Where did that extra prince come from? And those fairy gifts that were never there before? And what does a flock of balding sheep have to do with anything?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGail Carson Levine has waved her magic wand over the old standby of \"Sleeping Beauty\" and presto! It reappears, transformed, sparkling and hilarious. Chuckles and giggles are guaranteed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: \u003cbr\u003eGail Carson Levine grew up in New York City and has been writing all her life. Her first book for children, \u003ci\u003eElla Enchanted\u003c\/i\u003e, was a 1998 Newbery Honor Book. She is also the author of three other Princess Tales books: \u003ci\u003eThe Fairy's Mistake, The Princess Test, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePrincess Sonora and the Long Sleep.\u003c\/i\u003e Today Gail, her husband, David, and their Airedale, Jake, live in a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in Brewster, New York.In Her Own Words...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEIla Enchanted\u003c\/i\u003e began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School. I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me and I would hate her before I finished ten pages. That's when I came up with the curse: she's only good because she has to be, and she's in constant rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As a child I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic. Ella's magic book gave me the chance to answer a question thatalways plagued me about\u003ci\u003e The Shoemaker awl the Elves:\u003c\/i\u003e why the elves abandon the shoemaker. I came up with one answer, but many are possible — and I think the real solution goes to the heart of gratitude and recognition, an example of the depth in fairy tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I grew up in New York City. In elementary school I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister. In college, I was a Philosophy major, and my prose style was very dry and dull! My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, \u003ci\u003eSpacenapped \u003c\/i\u003ethat was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"And my painting brought me to writing for children in earnest. I took a class in writing and illustrating children's books and found that I was much more interested in the writing than in the illustrating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011163406576,"sku":"9780060280642","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060280642_p0.jpg?v=1763619560","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060280642","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}