Cinderlily

By:David Ellwand and Christine Tagg

Fairy Tale

~This is a really cute book that puts a unique spin on the tale of Cinderella. Instead of people, the book has the characters as flowers and Cinderella is portrayed as a Lily, with worn, tattered, and dried out petals as her dress. The tale follows the same story line with two mean sisters who order Cinderlily around doing chores. While her sisters go to the Sultan's ball Cinderlily is stuck at home, unntil a magical fairy comes a long. The fairy turns Cinderlily into a beautiful flower so she can go to the ball and dance with the Sultan. Cinderlily goes to the ball in a coach pulled by butterflies. The Sultan falls in love with Cinderlily but she runs off and has to be home by midnight. Cinderlily leaves a petal behind and the Sultan tries to find her through her lost pedal. Finally the Sultan finds Cinderlily and asks her to be his bride.

~This would be a good book to study when doing variations in fairy tales. You could take the traditional version of Cinderella and compare and contrast the two versions in a venn diagram. Students would have fun reading this book and looking at all the interesting flowers and how they are portrayed as humans.