Cinderlily: A Floral Fairy Tale

by Christine Tagg and David Ellwand

Book Overview

With humor and a touch of computer magic, illustrator David Ellwand directs a delightfully expressive cast of flowers in a breathtaking retelling of Cinderella sure to enchant lovers of fairy tales and flowers. Full color.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763623288
• ISBN13: 9780763623289
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.2" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A Book Review from a Spiritridge Third Grader

Are you a great poem and fairytale reader, because if you are then this is the book for you? Cinderlily is by David Ellwand and Christine Tagg. This book is a fairytale and poem book because it has a fairytale part and a poem part. The main idea of this story is about a girl flower that has two mean stepsisters. They like her because she has to clean up everything but doesn't. They have beautiful cloths and she has holes in her rags. One day an invitation came in. It said "Ladies should come to the castle to dance with the prince because he wanted to get married." To find out what will happen you will have to read it. The drawings were very interesting because the illustrator put flowers instead of people. I recommend this to people who like poems and fairy tales. You will adore it! Read it!

A Beautiful Work

This is absolutely an enchantingly, unique version of the Cinderella tale. Ellwand has done a beautiful job creating characters from beauiful flowers and leaves. It is truly whimsical. This and Fairie-ality are must haves!

CINDERLILY & FAIRIE-ALITY AT HARRODS LONDON

David Ellwand has produced another wonderful book 'Cinderlily' as only he can. His stunning exhibition at the worlds largest and greatest store Harrod's, London, England, May 2004, shows both Cinderlily and Fairie-ality in stunning limited edition prints. Quite breathtaking in their beauty. David Ellwand is a truly great designer and photographer. May he go on to give us a chance to see more of his wonderful work.

Floral Creativity

Just when you thought the Cinderella tale has been told in every way you thought possible, David Ellwand creates this beautiful photo collection using flowers as his actors. As stated in the previous review, his positioning and posing of the flowers shows a genuine knowledge of how gymnasts or ballet dancers move and keeps you engrossed in the story if only to see what ingenuity the next page will bring. Tagg's retelling is very creative as well with clever rhyming and a fresh perspective of the classic story. In addition, the typeset of the text is well done changing fonts at the right times for emphasis and not just for novelty. Altogether a great book for kids of all ages, artists, gardeners, fans of fairy-dom, photographers, dancers...

Autumn Enchantment

So original (though reminiscent of Saxton Freyman's vegetables), and beautifully presented. With creative use of the computer and knowledge of ballet and gymnastics moves, the team has put together a fresh re-telling of the Cinderella story using various flowers to represent the characters and some of the settings. It's a play in rhyme with each page being a visual and aural delight! It probably would be most appreciated by someone (of any age)who has had at least some ballet, and/or loves flowers.