Cleo asked Gail Carson Levine:

I read Ella Enchanted about 7 times for a school trivia contest. While reading it over and over I found chunks of the Cinderella story in it. Was that part of your inspiration?

Gail Carson Levine Yes. It's a novelization of the fairy tale.

I have a question that has been puzzling me, when Ella arrives at the giants farm, she eats what you call, "a giant cheese puff". Is this the crunchy kind as we know, or something different?

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