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Hughes, Shirley

Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella

48 pp. | Simon | October, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-689-87399-9 $16.95
(3) K-3 This 1920s version of the fairy tale features exquisitely drawn flapper fashions and a down-to-earth heroine, Ella Cinders, who declines the duke's proposal for a less ritzy but more fulfilling future with her delivery-boy sweetheart, Buttons. As usual, the attention to detail in Hughes's ink and gouache art lends an appealing concreteness to her fully imagined settings.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

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