Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Cinderella’s Stepsister and the Big Bad Wolf by Carey - OPTIONAL

Carey, Lorraine Cinderella’s Stepsister and the Big Bad Wolf, illustrated by Migy Blanco.  PICTURE BOOK.Nosy Crow (Candlewick), 2015.  $16.

What a strange riff on the Cinderella and the Big Bad Wolf stories.  Carey has made Cinderella lazy and invented a third stepsister to be the nice person in the family, go to the ball and win the prince.  I would have been much happier with the whole thing if the author hadn’t screwed up Cinderella’s personality, or had messed with the whole story line so much that it created a whole new story.  This, however, doesn’t quite work for me.  

EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL.  Cindy, Library Teacher

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