Cindy Rella

by Andy Mangels

This fractured fairy tale weaves the story of Cindy Rella. With a big school dance coming up, tomboy Cindy worries she isn't glamorous enough to attend like her vapid cousins. Plus, her career driven aunt has a list of chores for Cindy. But with the help of a handicapped friend and his tailor father, Cindy gets her chance to go to the dance. Can she make it home and get her chores done before her family finds out? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Genres: Retellings, Graphic Novels

32 pages, Library Binding

Published December 15, 2020

About the author

Andy Mangels is an American science fiction author who has written novels, comics, and magazine articles, and produced DVD collections, mostly focusing on media in popular culture. As an openly-gay man, he has been a longtime advocate for greater visibility of gay and lesbian characters in various media, especially comics, including the coordination and moderation of the annual "Gays in Comics" panel for Comic Con International since it was begun in 1988. He is the founder of an annual "Women of Wonder Day" event, which raises funds for domestic violence shelters and related programs. As of 2011 he has had books on the USA Today "best-selling books" list three times. wikipedia

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've been enjoying a lot of Far Out retellings for a discussion in the Children's Books group. This is a "Fractured Fairy Tale" but it's much in the same vein as that series, though these might be for a slightly older audience. There's enriching back matter in this series, too, though maybe not quite as much as the Far Out books.

Anyway, this particular entry was fine, with important themes, but it didn't quite work for me. Maybe because it tried to do too much, what with the stepsisters' vlogs (?) and the stepmother's whatever being almost a subplot.

But it's short, and a good fit for the target audience... say, 'tween girl reluctant readers, especially.

[wildct2003 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story and questions

[Amber Hadley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has a character with MS.