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| Title: Cinderellis and the Glass Hill |
| Author: Gail Carson Levine |
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Reviewer:
Valentina N. '10
Cinderellis and the Glass Hill is
about a boy named Ellis and his older brothers, Ralph and Burt. The story starts out when
Ellis is six. He does not know about the power he has to make magical powders. One rainy
day a powder he made and put in a tin cup starts to rise into the chimney. Then in a
second, it is outside. After that he does this all the time and asks his brothers if they
see anything. They will not answer his question. What they would do is try and change the
subject by saying something like "Looks like rain today..." or "Hot one,
isn’t it Burt!" and ignore him. Then one day Ellis shoots a tin cup up the
chimney and a ton of cinders fall in on him. After that his brothers say that a good name
for him would be Cinderellis. So that’s what they call him.
Ellis and his brothers live in the
kingdom of Brittle. The Princess of Brittle, whose name is Marigold, has a problem. Her
father goes on too many quests and she is left in castle for weeks. The quests are to find
a fish that can sing and other crazy things. She has only one friend, her cat Apricot.
Near the end of the story Marigold is forced to marry by her father. He commands the royal
glassmaker to build a hill; golden apples are placed on top. The king makes the princess
sit on the top and commands that the first lad to climb the hill and get three golden
apples can marry the princess.
To find out if the princess gets off the hill, be sure
to read the book.
Summer 2002 |
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| Reviewer:
Lisebeth
F. '09 Cinderellis
lives with his two older brothers who are as tight as nails with each other and always
ignoring him. Cinderellis invents magic powders (flying powder,
shrinking powder, growing powder, etc.), but his brothers never pay any attention to
him. All Cinderellis wants is to fit in with his brothers.
Faraway in a castle lives a princess. Her father, the king, is
always on quests and leaves the princess all alone. On one of his quests the king
gets in trouble with a monster. It gives him a curse that won't let the king go on
any more quests. He is devastated because his next quest is to find a husband for
his lovely daughter. So the king comes up with a fantastic (well, fantastic to
him) idea. He will create a slippery glass hill and anyone who climbs it and
gets three golden apples from the princess , who is at the top of the hill, will
marry her.
When the news reaches Cinderellis, he decides
to try it to impress his brothers. But first he has to figure out what is happening
to the grain that is disappearing in the middle of the night. His brothers have
failed to find out why this is happening.
Read this book to find out what happens to
Cinderellis. I recommend this book to anyone who likes fairy tales that are
twisted to be very different and funny
Spring 2002 |
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