The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece

from MichelleNappi

The main idea of this book is to retell the story of Cinderella as the tale of an orphan from Greece whose mother speaks from the grave and gives her courage and beautiful gifts. I enjoyed this book for many reasons. I really enjoyed the incorporation of Cinderella's mother into the story. In oth...

from Skaide1

In my opinion, this is a great twist on a classic book. Orphan is closely related to the fairytale Cinderella, and I think because of this it has many of the same positive traits. First, the characters are believable, and certainly well-deveoped. The characters are developed with such realistic t...

from slee74

I liked this book especially as a multi cultural book. The plot was very well done overall. The author makes the plot suspenseful and enjoyable to read. It follows typical traditional literal style of the simple plot and few characters. Additional to the plot, I found that the illustrations enhan...

from Kbenis1

This was a very interesting take on the traditional Cinderella story that I know. I learned that in Greek culture an orphan is referred to as a child who has lost their mother. In this story her mother had passed away and her father remarried the wicked step mother as we all know. The orphan one ...

from brittburditt

This book is a version of Cinderella set in Greece. Cinderella visits her mother's grave and prays for her help. Cinderella meets the Prince after going to a church service, and after three attempts at stopping Cinderella, the Prince was finally able to find her and give Cinderella her shoe that ...