Review: An amazing collection of variations on a timeless classic
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
I was happy to receive this book as a gift. I had been looking for books to read to my grandchildren who will be visiting me soon. Like most children, there is almost nothing they love more than sitting next to an adult on the couch and looking at the pages while the adult reads a children's story to them. So what a perfect find this book was.It is an amazing undertaking. For the publisher to seek out what is probably every version of the Cinderella story and then compile it into one perfectly formatted and beautifully illustrated collection. It's no wonder that at the time of this writing, Cinderella: The Ultimate Collection is on several best-sellers lists. It makes me wonder how long it will be offered at such a low price.I wish this enhanced version for ebook was available when my children were small. There are 29 versions! You could read each night to your children and when you are finished with one version, you could continue on to the next one. You may even want to ask your children which version is their favorite. As for adults like myself, my children are grown, but that's why they invented grandchildren. As an added bonus, if I get too tired to read out loud, I can click on one of the free, full-length audio recordings of different versions of Cinderella and listen to a professional. In summary let me say that whether you are reading to your children, or your grandchildren, or if you are just a kid at heart (you may even be interested in the historical aspects of this fine collection), I highly recommend this five-star collection.