The mailman brought a new book today to K. from her loving 
(and generous) Granny -- Cinder Edna. We promptly sat down and read our new book, which is a fun "fractured" version of K.'s favorite fairy tale. Cinder Edna is a poor but practical and self-sufficient young woman, who, through her own strenuous efforts (mowing lawns & cleaning birdcages to earn money for a party dress and bus fare), attends the same ball where the beautiful but helpless Cinderella meets Prince Charming. Cinder Edna winds up with the prince's younger, less handsome but also less self absorbed, brother. K. enjoyed the new story very much (three times, so far today), and she did get the "moral" about the plain, sensible girl ending up happier than the lovely, vacuous one (as this Cinderella was presented), but she still loves the glamorous girl with the magical fairy godmother, too. Fortunately, K.'s book-loving Granny just gave her K.Y. Craft's Cinderella for Christmas, which is the most beautifully illustrated Cinderella I have ever seen, 
and which has a text which emphasizes our heroine's kind and forgiving nature. In addition to these two, and to versions in several fairy tale anthologies we own, we also have Cinderella: The Dog and Her Little Glass Slipper by Diane Goode, and James Marshall's Cinderella. K. loves them all
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(and generous) Granny -- Cinder Edna. We promptly sat down and read our new book, which is a fun "fractured" version of K.'s favorite fairy tale. Cinder Edna is a poor but practical and self-sufficient young woman, who, through her own strenuous efforts (mowing lawns & cleaning birdcages to earn money for a party dress and bus fare), attends the same ball where the beautiful but helpless Cinderella meets Prince Charming. Cinder Edna winds up with the prince's younger, less handsome but also less self absorbed, brother. K. enjoyed the new story very much (three times, so far today), and she did get the "moral" about the plain, sensible girl ending up happier than the lovely, vacuous one (as this Cinderella was presented), but she still loves the glamorous girl with the magical fairy godmother, too. Fortunately, K.'s book-loving Granny just gave her K.Y. Craft's Cinderella for Christmas, which is the most beautifully illustrated Cinderella I have ever seen, 
and which has a text which emphasizes our heroine's kind and forgiving nature. In addition to these two, and to versions in several fairy tale anthologies we own, we also have Cinderella: The Dog and Her Little Glass Slipper by Diane Goode, and James Marshall's Cinderella. K. loves them all
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3 comments:
ooh fun! Cherry doesn't have many princess books yet, I'm hoping she loves them though.
*ahem* Will love, I mean
hee hee Cinder Edna. I love it. Have you seen The Egyptian Cinderella? That's also a neat one.
Dy
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