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Sweet Cinderella is forced to spend her days waiting on her cruel stepsisters and stepmother, almost forgetting that she, too, was once a fine young lady with handsome clothes and a soft bed to sleep in. But when Cinderella is left at home on the night of the Prince’s ball, her fairy godmother turns pumpkin into coach, mice into horses, lizards into footmen, and Cinderella’s rags into a beautiful ball gown. At the ball Cinderella secretly captures the heart of the Prince, but it is not until he finds the true owner of the delicate glass slipper that the two can live happily ever after.

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ISBN-13:	9781566569699
Publisher:	Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/28/2015
Series:	The Ruth Sanderson Collection
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	958,133
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	1 - 2 Years

About the Author

Ruth Sanderson is the renowned illustrator and author of over 80 books for children. Her fairy tale retellings have been widely praised and much loved by children everywhere. Her original fairy tale, The Enchanted Wood, won both the Young Hoosier Award and the Bank Street College Award. The Texas Bluebonnet Award was given to her retelling of The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring. Her beautiful and ornate version of the classic fable Goldilocks is the latest addition to the collection.

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The glitter on the cover foreshadows the glamour in Ruth Sanderson's retelling of Cinderella (when the fairy godmother transforms her, "Cinderella was thrilled"). Although based on Charles Perrault's classic tale, this version weaves in elements of the Brothers Grimm: Cinderella forgives her wicked stepmother and stepsisters, but when it's time for her to wed the prince, a flock of vengeful birds pecks the terrible trio, confining them to their house. Even as the heroine tends the fire, readers will see her beauty. (Apr.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

K-Gr 4-Sanderson blends together elements from both Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm in her retelling of this classic tale, with positive results. Perrault's stilted, formal language has been replaced with a graceful style that flows quite nicely, and the saccharine character of his Cinderella has been somewhat tempered. The addition of scenes from Grimm, such as the stepmother's dumping of the lentils into the ashes, serves to flesh out the story, but in some cases the scenes have been altered in such a way as to stray from their original meaning. In Sanderson's version, when Cinderella requests a hazel twig from her father, she plants it not on her mother's grave but simply in the garden, and the appearance of the white bird in that tree becomes a random thing instead of a symbolic tie. Also, as Sanderson has adopted Perrault's fairy godmother, the white bird seems superfluous. Other elements from Grimm have been sanitized. At the end of the story the stepsisters do not have their eyes pecked out, but are instead kept prisoner in their house by the watchful birds. These details dim, however, when one looks at Sanderson's art. Here there is real fairy-tale magic. Strikingly realistic oil paintings done entirely in double-page spreads depict lush landscapes and stately ballrooms with equal precision and artistry. The slight sepia and ivory tints that carry throughout transport readers to "once upon a time." Overall well written and beautifully illustrated, this Cinderella is a lovely addition.-Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

School Library Journal

The author-illustrator of The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring (2001) works her particular beguilement over Cinderella, using the Perrault story with elements from the Grimms. When Cinderella's nasty stepsisters request expensive gifts from their father, Cinderella asks only for a twig, which she plants next to her mother's favorite rose bush. A hazel tree grows and a white bird with a beautiful song inhabits it, easing Cinderella's loneliness. When the prince announces the ball, and Cinderella begs to go, her stepmother flings a bowl of lentils into the fireplace and says she can go if she can pick up every lentil in two hours. It is the birds who come to help Cinderella in this task, but of course, the stepmother refuses anyway. Later, the white bird is gone, but a white-winged fairy godmother under the hazel tree transforms Cinderella into a golden-gowned princess. Although the stepsisters beg for and receive Cinderella's forgiveness in the end, the birds do not permit them to leave their old house, but keep them imprisoned there while Cinderella and her prince live happily ever after. Eighteenth-century gowns and furnishings adorn this story, and Sanderson makes use of a silvery swath of fairy light to entwine Cinderella's gown and the enchanted coach. A Cinderella for Sanderson fans. (Picture book/fairy tale. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews

"An exceptionally exquisite rendering... Sanderson paints personality and emotion into each of her characters."

"The glitter on the cover foreshadows the glamour in Ruth Sanderson's retelling" even as the heroine tends the fire, readers will see her beauty."

"Real fairy-tale magic" striking realistic oil paintings" well-written and beautifully illustrated."

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"An exceptionally exquisite rendering... Sanderson paints personality and emotion into each of her characters."

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