After a curse was placed upon her as a baby, a princess pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and falls into a deep sleep on her sixteenth birthday. The rest of the palace falls into a deep sleep with her. Once hundred years later, a handsome price rides past the forgotten palace. Will the prince be able to undo the curse and finally awaken the princess? Skylarks is a series of fiction books, divided by chapters, which cover a wide range of genres from adventure, humour and fairy tale to fantasy, mystery and science fiction. Each story comprises approximately 2,000 words, broken into 7 or 8 chapters and illustrated in full colour with a range of artwork styles, with one or two images per spread. This series will take young independent readers into real books'.