Cinderella Liberator, Rebecca Solnit
Cinderella Liberator, Rebecca Solnit
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Cinderella Liberator

Author: Rebecca Solnit

Narrator: Rebecca Solnit

Unabridged: 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/24/2019


Synopsis

In her debut children's book, Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairy tale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella and new plot twists that will inspire young listeners to change the world.

In this modern twist on the classic story, Cinderella, who would rather just be Ella, meets her fairy godmother, goes to a ball, and makes friends with a prince. But that is where the familiar story ends. Instead of waiting to be rescued, Cinderella learns that she can save herself and those around her by being true to herself and standing up for what she believes.

About Rebecca Solnit

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Call Them By Their True Names (winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Betsy

I’ve been thinking about fairy tales a lot recently. Specifically feminist fairy tales. They aren’t a particularly new concept but in recent years there’s been a distinct increase in their numbers. At their best they can provide an innovative, sly commentary on everything that’s wrong with the Disne......more

A todos de una manera u otra nos han contado el cuento de La Cenicienta o si no seguro que alguna vez hemos visto la peli popularizada por Disney. Yo por ejemplo cuando pienso en la pedli y el Hada madrina me viene a la cabeza la canción Bibidi-babidi-bu. Si esta película es de 1950 ¿de cuando creéi......more

2.5 stars. This is an odd little book that defies any number of easy categories. It's a picture book, but the pictures are recycled Arthur Rackham silhouettes from a much earlier, less liberated Cinderella, and the proportion of text to image is rather high. It's a fairy tale retelling, but an openl......more

Goodreads review by Emi.acg

3.5 Me gustó, al principio es bien parecido al cuento que todos conocemos. Una madrastra malvada, sus dos hijas (salvó que acá se llaman Perlita y Paloma) y Cenicienta a quien la tienen haciendo todo. No muestra tanto la maldad con la que la tratan, está centrado en ella y posteriormente su encuentr......more