Cinderella's Rat

Cinderella's Rat
by Susan Meddaugh

Cinderella's Rat
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Author: Susan Meddaugh
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06
ISBN: 061812540X
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: Sandpiper

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Book Review: The best book ever!
Summary: 5 Stars

This book is the best book anyone can ever read. I recommend everyone to read it. When you finish you will recgonize that even little things can make a tremendous effort. This book is about a little rat changig into a human and he wanted his sister to turn into a human too and he realized after having his sister bark like a dog and turned into a human being, that being a rat is fine with him and he turned bakc into his normal.

Summary of Cinderella's Rat

Life is full of surprises for the rat who gets turned into a coachman by Cinderella?s fairy godmother. Susan Meddaugh uses her wit and animated artwork to give a hilarious new take on an old tale in this story of an ordinary rat caught in extraordinary circumstances.

Sometimes even the most ordinary rat can experience the extraordinary. "I was born a rat. I expected to be a rat all my days. But life is full of surprises." So begins Susan Meddaugh's wonderfully understated, comically illustrated Cinderella's Rat. Life is no picnic for a rat, the rodent narrator is quick to point out: "Cats are plentiful and food is scarce." Blinded by hunger, he and his sister Ruth fall into an obvious trap. Just when they are making their escape, the narrator rat is magically transformed into a coachboy.

The next thing the rodent coachboy knows, a stern old woman is telling him to drive a girl to the castle in his pumpkin-like coach. Once at the castle, the coachboy, at heart still a rat, is drawn to the kitchen by the smell of food. The cook--spotting a good helper--instantly sends him down to the larder, where the rat-boy promptly dives into an open bag of grain. A castle-dwelling boy catches him in the act, and suggests that bread would perhaps taste better. They munch bread, side by side. Suddenly they see a rat! "KILL IT," shouts the castle boy. "STOP! THAT'S MY SISTER!" shouts the former rat. The coachboy fears discovery, and imminent ratribution, but a strange plot twist saves his skin. "Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it," the book concludes, and we, as readers, are reminded that change--even transmogrification--isn't necessarily a bad thing. Meddaugh fans should not miss her critically acclaimed talking-dog books Martha Speaks, Martha Blah Blah, and Martha Calling. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson

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