This reader appreciated the focus on Cinderella’s abilities to do things rather than wear things. Our summer readers enjoyed the rhyming text and the graphic novel-type illustrations. In a surprise twist, Cinderella turns down the prince’s marriage proposal, but agrees to be his chief mechanic. All the trappings of the original tale are here: evil stepmother and step-sisters, fairy godmother (here, a fairy god-robot), and a Grvaity-Free Ball. Rather than an android sidekick, our younger heroine has a robotic mouse named Murgatroyd who helps her tinker with spaceships. Like Cinder, our Cinderella hero in this early reader version is a “stellar” repair mechanic for rocket ships and space vehicles. Once upon a planetoid,amid her tools and sprockets, a girl named Cinderella dreamed of fixing fancy rockets. We can’t help but think that Underwood has read Cinder, the YA novel by Marissa Meyer. ) So our interest is naturally piqued when we see titles like Interstellar Cinderella. (See: Book Flight on Cinderella Cinderella Around the World and Cinderella Revisted. Interstellar Cinderella(Princess Books for Kids, Books about Science). Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Meg HuntĪs readers of Litforkids know, we are enamored of Cinderella in all her retellings updates, and original glory. Once upon a planetoid, amid her tools and sprockets, a girl named Cinderella dreamedof fixing fancy rockets.With a little help from her fairy godrobot, Cinderella is going to the ball.
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