Cinderella is tired of a life of chores, but everything changes when her fairy godmother turns up. Just as she meets her perfect prince, though, the clock chimes twelve and she has to run. Will this hilarious retelling of the traditional fairytale, as a play by "the nation's dramatist" David Wood, end happily ever after?
* White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language.
* Text type: A playscript of a traditional story.
* A newspaper article of the palace ball on pages 30 and 31 helps children to recap the main events of the story.
* Curriculum links: Citizenship: Taking part - developing skills of communication and participation; Music: Play it again - exploring rhythmic patterns.
* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, White Series .
This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels.
There are 32 pages in this book. This is a play book. This book was published 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers .
David Wood is Wood is a leading writer and director of plays and musicals for children. His most famous story, The Gingerbread Man, has been performed all over the world. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.
This book contains the following story:
Cinderella
Cinderella REALLY wants to go to the ball but her wicked stepmother and ugly sisters think she's better off at home doing the chores. Along comes the fairy godmother, waves her magic wand and Cinders's clothes are transformed into a gorgeous ball gown. Off she goes to the palace ball in a pumpkin coach and horses transformed from mice. But when the clock strikes midnight Cinders reverts to her tattered old self, and the prince has only a glass slipper to find his gorgeous girly.
This book is in the following series:
White Series
Collins Big Cat
The Collins Big Cat series is a fully structured reading scheme with both fiction and non fiction titles. The series was designed to build speaking and listening as well as reading skills. Every book contains a unique reader response activity plus reading tips including suggested comprehension activities and curriculum links.
