This is the cover page for Sleeping Beauty, from the year 1852. The two versions of Sleeping Beauty, the chapbook and the Disney film, are so different it could be said the only thing they have in common is their title. 

Thiere are a number of differences between the chapbook and film version. First, the evil witch that is portrayed in the film, is portrayed as old fairy that was angry at the king for not providing her with gold plates like the other fairies. Secondly, in the film there are only three fairies, where as in the chapbook there are seven. In the film the fairies take the princess away to protect her and she has no idea of her real identity. In the chapbook she lives a happy and full life with her parents in the castle. In the film, the evil witch finds her and puts her into a trance so that she touches the needle that makes her fall into a deep sleep. Oddly enough, in the film, the princess has already met her prince, but in the chapbook, the princess and her court fall into a sleep that can only be broken after 100 years. In the film, the princess is asleep for just a few days.

The fairy spell put everyone to sleep, which also occurs in the film.  This is the final obvious similarity between the two versions. In the chapbook, the princess is woken by the words spoken to her by her prince, whereas in the film, it is by a kiss. In the chapbook, the prince and princess live together, have two children together, yet the prince lives a double life by not telling his parents about the princess. In the film, it was pre-determined that the prince and princess were meant to be together by their fathers. The most important difference in the endings is that in the original, the story did not end with the kiss, but continued for many years after.   

While the film depiction of Sleeping Beauty ends with a kiss, the chapbook version continues. The Queen/mother of the prince is an ogre who eats humans. This text is taken from the chapbook as she is trying to eat the princess and her two grandchildren. The story continues that the princess and her children escape, but are then caught. They are about to be thrown into a pot of boiling oil and eaten when the prince arrives. His ogre mother, ashamed of her actions, throws herself into the pot of oil and dies a painful death. It is then that the prince and princess, and their children, move to court. The prince becomes king and they all live happily for many years.