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Sleeping Beauty and the Z's
Despite the efforts of the Zs, a group of good fairies (Zabrina, Zanth, Zinda, Zaria, Zelda, Zoe, and Zellie), Princess Tara falls prey to a curse from the wicket fairy, Xenia. The curse is that when she turns 16 she will prick her finger and she and everyone in the whole castle will sleep for a hundred years. So determined that no one ever wake Tara, The Xenia conjures up a horrible ogre, enlists the aid of her terrible trolls and exploits a two-headed spider. A hundred years later, greedy Prince Egbert and lazy Prince Smedley, accompanied by their hard-working page, Jason, attempt to reach the princess. Smedley and Egbert cannot awaken her, but Jason's hesitant kiss does. In fact, a few other kisses turn some other unsavory characters into beautiful people! Just when the story should end happily, the Xenia appears and the nightmare begins again - but not for long! The Star ChildDeep in the forest on a cold winter's night, an owl tells his friends about another cold winter's night when a shooting star lit up the sky, fell to the ground, and left a human child in a hollow tree. A woodcutter, who sees the shooting star, finds the child, takes him home, and rears him as a member of his family. The Star Child grows up to be a very handsome young man, but he doesn't have compassion or kindness. He mistreats the poor and the sick, he hurts the animals of the forest, and he shows no love for the family that raised him. Eventually he loses his handsomeness becoming as ugly as his deeds. When he realizes the consequences of his actions, he roams the world as a beggar trying to undo the harm he has brought to others. Finally, he learns the meaning of the shooting star, and he becomes a great leader.
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