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Underwood, Deborah

Reading Beauty

40 pp. | Chronicle | September, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4521-7129-6
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Meg Hunt. Bookworm Princess Lex--who has brown skin and blue hair--has her books taken away on her fifteenth birthday. A fairy, insulted at not being invited to the celebration when Lex was born, cursed her to get a paper cut at fifteen, and...you know the rest. But like the author-illustrator pair's Interstellar Cinderella, this Sleeping Beauty takes an active role in her tale. The rhyming text cleverly involves reading at every turn. Mixed-media illustrations incorporate eye-pleasing sci-fi details.
Reviewer: Shoshana Flax | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2019

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