1986 "First Edition" stated; illustrated by Ruth Sanderson; Ariel Books/Alfred A. Knopf publishers, New York; "Manufactured in Italy"; hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good.
 
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The story of an unhappy little girl, her invalid cousin, and the healing power of friendship and love.  
 
This is the classic fairy tale about a princess who is cursed to sleep for a hundred years by an evil fairy, to be awakened by a handsome prince at the end of them. The good fairy, realizing that the princess would be frightened if alone when she awakens, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace asleep, to awaken when the princess does.[1]