Errol Le Cain

A retelling of the traditional tale of how the king's twelve daughters wear out their shoes every night while supposedly sleeping in their locked bedroom.

On Christmas Eve Santa goes slightly astray in a large apartment building before finally finding the stockings he seeks to fill.

Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

As she rejects suitor after suitor, the recently widowed Mrs. Fox almost despairs ever finding a new husband with the same wonderful qualities as the late Mr. Fox. A combined retelling of the Grimms' two versions of this story.