Sleeping Beauty: Aurora's Slumber Party

Sleeping Beauty: Aurora's Slumber Party

2010 • 10 pages

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15

Unfortunately, I read it.
I hated it. It's stupid. Well... I suppose it's OK artwork, and if one really, really, really loves Disney princesses, one would think it's wonderful.
But why I hate it?

Aurora and Philip are married, and Philip goes away, so Aurora has a slumber party with her “friends”, the three fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather.
Firstly, I have NEVER heard married people having slumberparties, especially not like this. Aurora invites the fairies, and when they arrive, she tells them it's a slumberparty and forces them to change to their nightgowns. Then they dance a little, have a pillow fight, and eat, and then they go to bed. Aurora lives in a castle, but they have mattresses on the floor in Aurora's bedroom for the fairies. This is a slumberparty for... five years olds?

Secondly, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather were not Aurora's friends, they were her guardians and caretakers. Why doesn't Aurora has any friends of her own age?
And would the old fairies really enjoy the same things Aurora enjoys? How old is she supposed to be in this story? Slumberparties? Seriously?

Aurora gets a splash of cream on her face, and they make a big thing about her not getting angry about it, because it's a slumberparty and they are supposed to be fun. So... if it was not a slumberparty, she would get mad?

And the fairies argue about blue and pink all the time. sigh

I know it's written for small kids, but... that doesn't mean one can push any crap. For some reason people seem to think that because something is a kid's movie or book or story, one shouldn't have any critique on it.

March 3, 2021