A New Spin on Cinderella - Bookwyrm Chrysalis Review

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	• Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine HarperCollins Children's Books, 2004 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 1135 reviews view larger image
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Ella Enchanted ROCKS!!!!!

I really like this new twist of Cindrella! I don't like the fact that Dame Olga, Hattie, & Olive force Ella to be their slave! My friends & I read it all the time! Really good choice for girls & boys of all ages(that can read chapter books)!

A New Spin on Cinderella - Bookwyrm Chrysalis Review

Ella of Frell received a fairy gift as a baby, the gift of obedience.

Anything she is ordered to do, she must do, as result of the gift. If she is ordered to jump into an ogre's pot, she will. If she is ordered to kill the prince that she loves, then she must.

Ella Enchanted is the story of Ella's journey to find a way to break her curse, to find the fairy who gave her the "gift," and most of all, to find herself. Filled with ogres, elves, a stepmother and stepsisters who just might be of the evil variety, or at least the self-indulging kind, and a prince who might just be charming, this book puts a new spin on the old Cinderella tale.

This is a classic book in the retelling of fairytales genre, humorous and containing a strong heroine. Ella is kind-hearted and independent, fighting against her curse in every way she can think of. Ella will delight readers of all ages and surprise them as they discover everything that leads up to the famous ball and glass slippers.

Now in its third edition, Ella Enchanted has just been re-released again as a hardcover. The new cover (above) features a real girl and shining gold trim, which matches the other re-releases of Levine's books. All the books have been re-done in honor of her newest book, Fairest. Personally, I like my beat-up copy that comes from the movie release, with Anne Hathaway on the cover. She makes an excellent Ella, and her picture tends to attract an older reader. Even though Ella is fifteen for the majority of the book, the two non-movie covers feature girls who look about twelve. Personally I find this misleading, and I originally avoided the book because it seemed to young for me.

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The Detailed Cinderella Story

The prequel to Cinderella, Ella Enchanted, is a mind-boggling telling of the story of Cinderella; telling you what happened before the "Once upon a time", how she ended up with her step-sisters and mother, and how she met the prince before the big ball! You also learn about her father, her real mother, and her other fairy god mother, who's enchantments more trouble than you think. A modernized Cinderella story, all the details missing from the fairy tale, are filled in, Gail Carson Levine has showed my dad and I how much was missing from the real version of the Cinderella story.

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A Sweet Cinderella Story

I read this book for a class I took on fairy tales and really really loved it. This is a fantastic read for children and young teens and a great way to give young people a different, more empowering fairy tale heroine story.

The book follows the daughter of a travelling salesman, Ella, who is under a curse from an unpredictable, showy, fairy that 'blesses' people with her poorly thought out birth or marriage greetings. Ella is blessed with the task of obedience, meaning whenever someone gives her a direct command, she must respond to it - although she can find loopholes to get out of doing what people ask her to.

The plot of the story mirrors Cinderella, but also gives explanations for all those things you were ever wondering about the original Cinderella story. After her mother's death, Ella's father realizes he is quite poor and needs to either marry Ella off, or get married himself before other people figure it out as well. He charms a widowed woman with two daughters and they make plans to get married - meanwhile, Ella is sent off to charm school with her stepsisters, one of which figures out Ella's condition. Ella realizes she needs to find a way to not only break the spell, but find a way to save her father from his marriage by entering into a relationship with someone she already has romantic feelings for - the local prince, Char.

Plenty of excitement and drama unfolds as Ella escapes charm school and is united with all sorts of magical beings, Char himself, and the workings of her family. Again, a great telling that adds a bit of logical (if you can suspend your disbelief in the magical setting) sense to this classic fairy tale!

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Ella Enchanted

Possibly one of the best Cinderella stories ever written. The movie makes this book look pathetic, but if you read it you'll have one the best literary experiences of your life. Ella's story, told in first person, is full of excitement and adventure, none of this "I'm too smart for the prince" idea that you see in the movie or the vicious uncle and snake...no possible idea where the movie writers would have come up with that. She is truly on of the greatest heroines that i have had the opportunity to read about. I first read this book when i was 10 and now i am in college and I still love it. I have kept it in my library all these years and will continue to reread it for many to come i am sure.

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