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Title: Cinderellis and the Glass Hill by Gail Carson Levine, Mark Elliott ISBN: 0-06-028336-X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.37 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Motivate young girls to read with these amazing fairy tales!
Comment: Gail Carson Levine continues to write great books, though she should write a few more long books, I am perfectly happy to have these short humorous books about girl power integrated with commen fairy tales. These books have motivated my cousin to read when she would not read anything else but these books. If you have a stubborn little girl at home that won't read, but loves fairy tales, give her one of the prinncess tales or read one together. I hope that they will love this book as much as I did. I loved Cinderellis and the Glass Hill and Prinncess Sonora and the Long Sleep the best, but the others were great too.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sweet and sure to be popular
Comment: Part of Gail Carson Levine's new "Princess Tales" series, this title in the series is just as much about the prince. Cinderellis, boy inventor, is lonely because his brothers have bonded and exclude and discredit him at every turn, while Princess Marigold confides to her cat how lonely she is, because her father is always off on quests. Their stories are told in alternating chapters as the years pass. On the year the king is determined to quest for a son-in-law, he is cursed by an imp and the suitors must come to the palace. Cinderellis, who has captured 3 magnificent horses that conveniently come with a suit of armor, enters the contest to climb a glass hill to get to get the Princess.
The story is charming, and Levine's unique blend of humor (in one scene, the king quests for a goose that lays golden eggs, but returns with a turkey that lays tin ones) and practicality (Cinderellis' horse treats contain horse chestnuts, among other things) make a powerful invention.
The volume is attractively packaged in a slim petite butter yellow library bound book, with delicate scrollwork decorating the cover. The cover picture looks too "Disney" for my taste, and the prince inside is a Leonardo DiCaprio look alike.
Readers familiar with fairy tales will get the most out of Levine's twisting of common fairy tale elements. Although not as stellar as her awarding-winning Ella Enchanted, this is a fun book that will find an audience in fans of fractured fairy tales.
Rating: 4
Summary: A more interesting hero
Comment: Cinderellis and the Glass Hill was much better than "The Princess Test" (another Gail Carson Levine novel) because the main characters have some dimension to them.
Ellis is a very likeable character but an outcast in his family. He seems desperate for the attention of his shallow, almost comically dumb brothers. When one of the fields is totally decimated by a mysterious event and he's the only one willing to make an effort to understand in hopes of winning their adolation. The build up of Ellis confronting the mysterious event is done pretty well, and makes this an enjoyable story.
The subplots are pretty funny. King Humphrey, playing the classic male, wants to find The Thing that will make his daughter Marigold happy. He is constantly going on quests whose results are always less than what he hoped. For example, while hunting for the Goose that Lays Golden Eggs, he returns with the Turkey that Lays Tin Eggs.
Also recommended: Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep, For Biddle's Sake.
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Title: Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep by Gail Carson Levine, Mark Elliott ISBN: 0060280646 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: For Biddle's Sake by Gail Carson Levine ISBN: 0060000945 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Fairy's Return by Gail Carson Levine ISBN: 0066238005 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Princess Test by Gail Carson Levine, Mark Elliott ISBN: 006028062X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Fairy's Mistake by Gail Carson Levine, Mark Elliott ISBN: 0060280603 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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