Twinderella, A Fractioned Fairy Tale

by Corey Rosen Schwartz, Deborah Marcero (Illustrator)

Overview

Turns out you only know half of the story of Cinderella. Learn the rest in this mathmatically enjoyable fractioned fairy tale!

Cinderella had a twin sister, Tinderella. They each did half the housework, half the mending, and half the mean step-sister tending. But when they meet only one prince, what will they do?

The whole story has twice the magic and double the fun!

From the author The Three Ninja Pigs comes the fractioned fairy tale of Cinderella and her less-famous sister.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399176333
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/05/2017
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	168,454
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Corey Rosen Schwartz is the author of The Three Ninja Pigs, Ninja Red Riding Hood, Hensel and Gretel, Ninja Chicks, and Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears. She has a Masters in Deaf Education from Gallaudet and taught at Lexington School for the Deaf for several years. She's also worked for an Internet company where she developed educational content for kids. Corey lives in Warren, NJ, with her better half and two young kids. She has no free time, but if she did, she would spend it scuba diving.

Deborah Marcero received her BFA in drawing and photography from the University of Michigan, and her MFA in poetry from the School of Art Institute in Chicago. She was a Lead Literacy teacher in Chicago Public Schools, and in her spare time, she loves climbing trees, hiking, swimming, and capturing changes in light with her camera. This is her first picture book.

Editorial Reviews

"A fun and lively 'fractioned' fairy tale that children will enjoy figuring out. A read-aloud treat for fans of 'happ’ly ever half-ter.'"—School Library Journal

"Double the fun for storytime or math lessons." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2017-06-14
A light, rhyming story imagines if Cinderella had a lesser-known twin sister.Schwartz, author of Ninja Red Riding Hood (illustrated by Dan Santat, 2014) and Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears (illustrated by Nate Wragg, 2014), knows how to spin a fractured fairy tale. Touting itself as a "fractioned fairy tale," however, this take on "Cinderella" proclaims that readers familiar only with the original story "don't know the half of it!" Breezy, pun-filled rhymes introduce Cinderella's twin, Tinderella, who uses math to divide their wicked stepmother's chore list in half. The fraction theme continues as the girls divide and conquer tending to the mean stepsisters, splitting meager meals, and sharing a bed. And when Prince Charming announces a ball to find himself a bride and their fairy godmother comes to their rescue, the twins know how to divide the trinkets and coach in half. Vibrant, digitally enhanced illustrations rendered in ink, gouache, and watercolor capture all the merriment until, just as in the original tale, one smitten prince is left with one shoe. Since a prince can't be divided, Tinderella, ever the mathematician, asks the fairy godmother to double him. A fitting ending explains how Cinderella and her prince became famous and wound up on the throne while Tinderella and her prince won the kingdom's math awards and kept fractions flourishing with baby quadruplets. With the possible exception of some dark faces in crowd scenes, the cast is an all-white one. Double the fun for storytime or math lessons. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews