Comments on: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

By: Ginger

Ginger — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:49:52 +0000

okay so i finally read this book and i loved it! it has many differences compared to the movie which was also good. but i still love the book more. i mean come on! who doesn’t want to slide down banister rails and be caught by a prince!!?!?

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:19:05 +0000

My aunt gave me this book about six years ago and it became my favorite book. I read it all the time, so much that I didn’t need to read it anymore because I could recite it. I should really get a new copy since mine has pretty much fallen apart.

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By: Jenn M.

Jenn M. — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:26:01 +0000

My daughter’s were watching the movie one day and I sat down and watched it too. I thought it was kind of a funny retelling of the ‘Cinderella’ story. I saw that it was based upon a book and decided to give it a try. I like to pick a chapter book to read to my girls outloud in addition to them reading to me. We all really enjoyed the book. SO much better than the movie. We also found that Gail Carson Levine wrote the Tinkerbell story “Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg”, which was our next read.

I read the Gregory Maguire books, ‘Wicked’, ‘Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister’, and ‘Mirror, Mirror’. Much to adult for my children, but very interesting fairy tale retelling. We are going to try his children’s story ‘Leaping Beauty’ next.

I’m adding ‘Fairest’ now based upon Gamila’s recommendations and I think we will try ‘Zel’ as well.

Thanks for the review and recommendations.

By: Gamila

Gamila — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:34:16 +0000

Ella Enchanted is a fairy tale classic! I really love the book and didn’t care for the movie too much. I think this book is still Gail Carson Levine’s best book, though I haven’t read all of them. Her book Fairest, which is also a fairy-tale retelling, revisits the same world that Ella Enchanted is set in. So, if you want more you should probably go read that one first.

By: Framed

Framed — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:55:53 +0000

I’ve acquired two copies of this book (lost one) and still haven’t read it yet. I’m hoping there will be another “Twisted Fairy Tale Challenge” next year and I’m saving it for that. Great review.

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:39:58 +0000

This one has been on my list to read for a while. Thanks for the review! It will probably be on my daughter’s reading list in the future as well, since her name is Ella. I thought the movie was pretty cute too.

By: Suey

Suey — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:21:00 +0000

Read the book, seen the movie, love them both!

By: Janssen

Janssen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:23:08 +0000

What a great review (and book!). I’ve been poking around your blog for about twenty minutes and I LOVE it. . .can’t wait to see more!

By: Nicki

Nicki — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:22:44 +0000

I saw the movie first, then listened to the book, and had a nasty bit of cognitive dissonance, since Anne Hathaway is playing ~18 in the movie, Ella in the book is ~15 (I think?), and the audiobook narrator sounded like she was 12, tops.

I loved both of them, though. The movie is silly but it’s a very good tired/sick/lazy weekend morning movie.