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ONCE UPON A DREAM
From Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty
to Disney’s Maleficent
By Charles Solomon
Introduction by Don Hahn
Designed by Gregory Wakabayashi
Hardcover; 9 x 12; 176 pages
Published by Disney Editions

Once Upon a Dream traces the progression of the ancient fairy tale about the “Beauty of the Sleeping Forest” through its glorious expression in literature, music, dance, and film. Abundantly illustrated throughout, the book features an extended look back at the Disney animated classic, Sleeping Beauty, considered a pinnacle of artistic achievement for the studio, highlighted by Eyvind Earle’s Renaissance-inspired

backgrounds and Marc Davis’s hauntingly alluring villain. The book concludes with an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the development and creation of the most recent incarnation of the classic tale: Maleficent, a film that explores the perspective of a character whose motives, once thought to be petty and cruel, actually stem from a desire to belong and to be loved.