by Donna Jo Napoli
This is a book that retells the Chinese version of the Cinderella story--which appeared centuries before the European one--with unerring faithfulness, the only major change being that the setting is the Ming Dynasty, not Qin or Han.By the Ming, foot-binding was already in widespread practice, and Na...
It's been so many years since I've read anything by Donna Jo Napoli -- I think more than a decade -- so I was pleased to find that she still "held up" after all this time, especially since I stopped reading her because I seem to have OD'd and found her books not "doing it" for me the same way they u...
3.5This was the first thing I read by Napoli, and though it started strong and had a great sense of place, in some respects it was a letdown. Not completely, and I would still recommend it, but...I'll just get right into it. I thought it had a very strong start. The Cinderella aspects were clear...
I liked this Asian cinderella tale when I was reading it. But it didn't give me any characters or situations that stuck with me after I closed the book. So much so that a few weeks back when I ran across it again here at GR I thought oh, interesting, and requested it from the library. Five pages i...
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