Beauty vs The Sleeping Beauty: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction
Beauty
A retelling of the story Beauty and the Beast. There is also a sequel available titled Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley.
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The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty told at length, with the hundred years of sleep and the family the prince has to leave, and other tales retold by a scholar-novelist for children. Quiller-Couch edited the Oxford Book of English…
The verdict
- Readers rate Beauty highest: Beauty 4.1 · The Sleeping Beauty 3.8.
- The Sleeping Beauty is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 4 for Beauty.
- Beauty has the widest readership — 148 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Beauty | The Sleeping Beauty | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 3.7 (118) | 4.5 (1) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (148) | — |
Reception
| Beauty | The Sleeping Beauty | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 148 | 1 |
| Editions | 31 | 18 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 40539 | 441 |
| Pages | 247 | 128 |