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''' Longlisted Shortlisted for the 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal'''
Sleeping Beauty has been snoring for some considerable time. About seventy years, it's thought. But recently, the sleeping spell has been spreading and it's now threatening the realm across the mountains, where another Queen is about to be married. And this Queen is not having any of that. Putting her crestfallen fiance and her glamorous wedding dress to one side, the Queen dons her armour (heart and stomach of a lion, this one) and travels with three dwarf retainers through the tunnels under the mountains, determined to save her country and her people...