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This little fable about Cinderella's plain but hard-working neighbor Edna is cute but annoyingly obvious and preachy in a way that I had shoved down my throat all my school-years. I'm sure anyone over age 5 would guess from the beginning that our sympathies are meant to be with with the upbeat Edna as she mows lawns and cleans birdcages (Cinderella cleans all day too, but because she feels sorry for herself I guess we don't have to). We're supposed to admire Edna and her prince, Rupert, because
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I liked a lot of this. I liked the plucky heroine, Cinder Edna, who lives next door to Cinderella. I like the prince Cinder Edna ends up with. I like that they actually get to know one another before marrying. I didn't like the jokes involving countries the two characters were obviously not members of, and at times it felt too didactic, in a similar way to why I dislike much of Disney (even though on the surface this is subverting Disney). Cinder Edna is the heroine because even though she's tre
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This was one of my favorite books as a child . I think my parents liked it cause I was obsessed with Cinderella and it offers a more realist perspective . I always thought it was hilarious
Nov 29, 2011
Neha
marked it as to-read
Jul 24, 2012
Candace Pettit
marked it as to-read
Apr 10, 2014
Beth
marked it as retelling-fairy-tales
