Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Cinderlily

"The faded, unforgettable charm of a once familiar bloom."

Cinderlily
By: David Ellwand AND Christine Tagg
Copyright 2003
Candlewick Press
School Age Kids
Fairy Tale
23 Pages

Cinderlily wants to go to the Royal Autum Ball.  She is a beautiful lily but she is shy.  She is forced to help her sisters get ready for the Sultan's Ball and help the stand out.  Her sisters told her she was not allowed to go to the ball, she had to stay home while they got to go out and have fun.  As Cinderlily cleans she dreams nad strats dancing around with her broom.  Soon a fairy is hovering over her.  Cinderlily is told that she can be transformed adn go to the ball but at midnight the magic will be over.  Cinderlily's pettles were no longer wilted but beautiful and white.  and golden carrige comes up being pulled by six butterflies.  At the ball all the flowers are trying to impress the Sultan.  The fairy watching closly casts a spell so that he will meet Cinderlily.  They dance and have fun until the clock strikes midnight and she must run off.  He pettles wilting again as she runs off, one of her pettles falls off.  The Sultan searchs all the gardens far and wide looking for the beautiful flower.  He takes the pettle to see if it fits anyone, but the pettle fits none.  THen he sees her and he trys the pettle with her and it fits and she blooms again. And they get married.

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