Technically, I’m here this week to talk about my favorite book, but, because I’m a rebel who don’t play by no rules, I’m going to tell you about my favorite character. You probably don’t know me all that well considering that, due to my own laziness, I haven’t written a single post for the blog yet, but hopefully, once you’re done reading this, you’ll know me a little better and we can all be grand friends! Hey, Emma Ryan here! I’m a member of the TCWT staff. McElderry, 2002.5 Reasons Why Ella (Enchanted) Is A True Woman Of Fiction If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella. Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird. Red Ridin’ in the Hood: And Other Cuentos.

Ella’s Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella.

Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella. Simon & Schuster, 1999.īurnett, Frances Hodgson. PRINCES AND PRINCESSES.īillingsley, Franny. You'll want to examine other Cinderella retellings (and there are hundreds of them world-wide) to compare and celebrate this superbly crafted story. Check out the alternate points of view in other Cinderella-themed books like I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman and If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella by Laura Whipple. Kids can write new sayings in Gnomish, write the stories that might appear if they had their own magic storybooks, and compare, contrast, and evaluate the movie of Ella Enchanted with the book. In her flight from her awful new school, Ella meets up with friendly gnomes and dangerous ogres, and gradually finds herself falling in love with her genial friend, Prince Charmont. Luckily, she has been given a magical book by the family cook (really her fairy godmother) that changes with each reading to provide news of home. Ella is powerless to resist them when they discover her inability to disobey, and take advantage of her. Now, at 14, with her adored mother recently dead, she is shipped off by her cold, businesslike father to a finishing school, in the company of her two cloddish future step-sisters. Cursed at birth by the interfering fairy Lucinda's gift of obedience, Ella has spent her life trying to overcome her compulsion to do whatever others order of her. What's the real scoop on Cinderella? In her very first children's book, author Gail Carson Levine blows us away with an innovative, insightful, and riveting novel told by Ella, no shrinking violet or uncomplaining doormat to her new step-family.

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