![]() ![]() I love Princess Lovelypenny’s fur trimmed, leopard skin jogging suit and find Prince Cinders’ little muscles hilarious. Babette Cole’s wonderful text and illustrations are full of humour and can be appreciated just as much by adults as by children. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a humorous retelling of the Cinderella story with some wonderfully, original twists, a male main character and a fairy (dressed as a schoolgirl!) whose spells don’t work as they should. They only fit Prince Cinders and he marries Princess Lovelypenny (the fairy turns his brothers into palace cleaning fairies). Prince Cinders loses his trousers in his haste to get away from the princess so next day all the princes try them on. His monkey appearance frightens Princess Lovelypenny but then midnight strikes and he becomes his shy, skinny self again. Her spells don’t go quite as planned and Prince Cinders can’t get into the Rock’n Royal Bash as he looks like a large monkey. One evening a dirty fairy falls down the chimney and tries to grant his wishes – he wants to be like his brothers. The Story: Shy Prince Cinders does all the housework while his brothers are at the disco. Prince Cinders isn’t your archetypal dashing prince (unlike his three, large, hairy brothers) but with the help of a dirty fairy he does get his happy ending! ![]()
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