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Timed to coincide with the much-ballyhooed (and much-merchandised) release of Walt Disney's Cinderella on DVD, this Little Golden Book holds all the appeal of the original fairy tale: a kind, mistreated girl whose dreams come true, transforming her into a celebrated princess and delivering her
"happily ever after."
What is too often lost in the modernized retelling of
fairy tales for children is the brutal nature of the times
in which they were set. This print edition, unlike some
other recent Disney book versions, keeps the fact of the
death of Cinderella's father intact. This adds a depth to
Cinderella's character and situation that is lost when the
story starts in medias res with her mean stepmother
and stepsisters as her only "family".
Walt Disney's Cinderella does little to recommend increasingly common blended-family situations; then again, that's not its job. It's a fantastic
yarn about a girl outlasting adversity, about a heroine we
love to root for and villains we love to hate. Approach it
with kids as an entertaining story rather than an
opportunity for moral instruction. Don't all little
princesses deserve to dream guilt-free now and again?
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Sharon Schulz-Elsing/2005 for curled
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Walt Disney's Cinderella (Little Golden Book)