First Readers - Sleeping Beauty When the princess pricks her finger on a spinning wheel she goes to sleep for one hundred years. Then a prince arrives at the castle. Will he be able to wake the princess up Sleeping Beauty is illustrated by Rebecca Elliott and is part of the First Readers series, designed by experts for you and your child to read together. Each book contains a traditional fairy tale for an adult to read aloud, alongside short, simple sentences for the child to read.