Sleeping Beauty

Author: Charles Perrault, 1628-1703
Genre: European Fairy Tale
Reading Time: Approx. 32 minutes.
Audio: 32 minutes

This page includes the audio, background, and link to the text for this classic European fairy tale.

Audio

The following audio links to StoryNory are a wonderful retelling of this famous classic:

Sleeping Beauty (Part I)

Sleeping Beauty (Part II)

Background

One of the most popular versions of the classic European fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty was written by Charles Perrault in 1697.

Text

Visit the Baldwin Project to find the text for an English version of Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty (from Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book).

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