Looking for Cinderella - Hardcover

Dematons, Charlotte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1886910138 ISBN 13: 9781886910133

Publisher: Front Street Inc, 1996

Synopsis

While walking down a small road, Hilda is jumped by a little girl in a red riding hood, who mistakes Hilda for Cinderella, and dragged into a mill, leading her on a series of adventures and misadventures that almost make her late for dinner.

About this title

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Dutch

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 2. In this unimpressive import from the Netherlands, Hilda wanders into a fairy-tale world where she is constantly mistaken for Cinderella. Little Red Riding Hood shoves a glass slipper onto her foot and the Prince carries her away on his horse. Hilda moves from scene to scene, meeting Hansel and Gretel, Tom Thumb, and a giant. Finally, she finds the real Cinderella scrubbing an attic floor. Hilda gives her the glass slipper and returns to her everyday life. Lacking in imagination and vitality, the story is a patchwork of familiar tales jumbled together without a strong plot. The dialogue is repetitive and dull, and the final discovery of Cinderella is predictable and anticlimactic. Although the illustrations are colorful, some of the layouts are choppy. One of the double-page spreads squeezes in five different pictures of Hilda doing different things. These confusing images, packed onto the spread sardine style, do not flow smoothly. For a more imaginative journey into the storybook world, try Alma Ada's Dear Peter Rabbit (Atheneum, 1994) or B. G. Hennessy's The Missing Tarts (Viking, 1989).?Joy Fleishhacker, School Library Journal
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About this edition

• Publisher: Front Street Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1886910138
• ISBN 13: 9781886910133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Sauerwein Leigh