My kids have an opportunity to go to a ballet performance of Sleeping Beauty.
They are taking ballet and really enjoying it. So anyway, my dh knows a professional ballerina and she invited us to an upcoming performance of Sleeping Beauty! I think this is a wonderful opportunity for them...but I would like to read the story to them ahead of time so they can better follow the story. We have not read any Disney and they have no exposure to this or other fairy tales. I thought I'd find the original story but that turns out to be quite intense and not something I'm ready to discuss with them...It involves a married man going into the woods, finding the dead/"sleeping" woman, having sex with her and she gets pregnant with twins and one of the baby sucks on her finger and dislodges the wooden piece and she comes alive....the guy returns to the woods to find the woman is alive and well and they fall in love...but his wife finds out about her and his kids and tries to have them killed....and on and on. I think this type of story would be a great story to look at and study and discuss with older kids...but at 4 and 6 I think they are too young for these heavy topics.
Is there a better version of this story...one that the ballet show is probably going to depict? Anyone have a version they think is a good start for young kids but still well written? I'm not a Disney fan but maybe that is where I should look? has anyone ever been to a ballet performance of Sleeping Beauty?
They are taking ballet and really enjoying it. So anyway, my dh knows a professional ballerina and she invited us to an upcoming performance of Sleeping Beauty! I think this is a wonderful opportunity for them...but I would like to read the story to them ahead of time so they can better follow the story. We have not read any Disney and they have no exposure to this or other fairy tales. I thought I'd find the original story but that turns out to be quite intense and not something I'm ready to discuss with them...It involves a married man going into the woods, finding the dead/"sleeping" woman, having sex with her and she gets pregnant with twins and one of the baby sucks on her finger and dislodges the wooden piece and she comes alive....the guy returns to the woods to find the woman is alive and well and they fall in love...but his wife finds out about her and his kids and tries to have them killed....and on and on. I think this type of story would be a great story to look at and study and discuss with older kids...but at 4 and 6 I think they are too young for these heavy topics.
Is there a better version of this story...one that the ballet show is probably going to depict? Anyone have a version they think is a good start for young kids but still well written? I'm not a Disney fan but maybe that is where I should look? has anyone ever been to a ballet performance of Sleeping Beauty?
