Author: Deborah Underwood
Illustrator: Meg Hunt
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Copyright: 2015
Genre: Science Fiction
Number of Pages: 41
"Interstellar Cinderella" is a sciency twist to the classic fairy tale Cinderella. A young girl who has to keep her stepmothers house clean, but loves to work on rockets, realizes that dreams do come true!
The illustrations of "Interstellar Cinderella" perfectly fit the book. Throughout the entire story, you feel as though you are suppose to be reading a science and space-filled book, which is accurate. I loved how well everything was illustrated, because it helps change the story from what I have originally seen in Cinderella to this new version of it.
Grade: 4th
Content Area: English Language Arts
Standard: Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same
event or topic;
describe the differences in focus and the information
provided. [RI.4.6]
This book would be a great book to use in the classroom for comparing two versions of a story and finding the similarities and differences. The teacher could choose whether she reads it to everyone or whether the students read it on their own. After students have read the book, the teacher could make a t-chart broken into similarities and differences. She could then give each student a stack of sticky notes and have them jot similarities they remember on some sticky notes and differences on other sticky notes. After the students have written their ideas on sticky notes, they could then place the sticky notes on the chart at the front of the class and everyone come together to talk about it. After discussing similarities and differences, the students can write a paragraph explaining it.
In this version of Cinderella, she is still her stepmothers servant and left by her stepsisters. Instead of going to a royal ball though, they attend the Royal Space Parade, and instead of having a fairy god mother, she has a fairy god robot visit her to give her tools so that she can fix her rocket and make it to the parade. Just like the classic Cinderella, she gets caught at midnight running late, which causes her to be in a rush and leave something behind. This time instead of a shoe, she leaves a socket wrench. The prince, similar to the original story, uses this to find his runaway princess and Interstella Cinderella has her dream come true! Just as I have briefly done here, this book can be used to teach students how to compare and contrast two versions of a story.
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