Author: Bridget Hodder
First off, I absolutely hate the cover of this book. It is very offputting to me, and I might draw a different cover for it at some point.
This book (despite the terrible cover that makes me feel like its aimed at 2nd graders) is very well done! The story is from the rats' point of view as well as Cinderella's herself. Gone is the super young marriage. Gone is the mother dying when the girl is very very young. Hodder does very well at covering all the angles that were previously untouched in other tellings of this story. Particularly the stepmother's past, why the father is absent, and how magic isn't always what you want but can sometimes be what you need.
I really don't want to go much farther into this other than to say that I absolutely love the names of the rats and mice. (SO MUCH LOVE!) This is a very good book, and you should totally read it if you are a fairy tale lover!
ISBN: 978-0-374-30213-9
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