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When Hilda goes for a walk, she encounters storybook characters who repeatedly mistake her for Cinderella and try to get her to marry the prince.
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School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2In this unimpressive import from the Netherlands, Hilda wanders into a fairy-tale world where she is constantly mistaken for Cinderella. Little Red Riding Hood shoves a glass slipper onto her foot and the Prince carries her away on his horse. Hilda moves from scene to scene, meeting Hansel and Gretel, Tom Thumb, and a giant. Finally, she finds the real Cinderella scrubbing an attic floor. Hilda gives her the glass slipper and returns to her everyday life. Lacking in imagination and vitality, the story is a patchwork of familiar tales jumbled together without a strong plot. The dialogue is repetitive and dull, and the final discovery of Cinderella is predictable and anticlimactic. Although the illustrations are colorful, some of the layouts are choppy. One of the double-page spreads squeezes in five different pictures of Hilda doing different things. These confusing images, packed onto the spread sardine style, do not flow smoothly. For a more imaginative journey into the storybook world, try Alma Ada's Dear Peter Rabbit (Atheneum, 1994) or B. G. Hennessy's The Missing Tarts (Viking, 1989).Joy Fleishhacker, School Library Journal (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
In her U.S. debut, Dutch illustrator Dematons tickles her readers' imaginations by plunking a modern girl into a fairy tale world. Hilda looks out of her bedroom window to see signs of life at the deserted old windmill outside of town. When she goes there to investigate, she steps into a world where she is repeatedly mistaken for Cinderella. Characters from various stories mingle: the seven dwarfs help reroof the gingerbread house of the witch in Hansel and Gretel, for example. Finally Hilda finds the real Cinderella, hands her the glass slipper she has been mistakenly given, and Cinderella's coach takes her home. In some ways, the juxtaposition of modern/old, real/make-believe just doesn't seem to be mined thoroughly enough. Yet Dematon's ingenuous, old-new illustration style hits the mark, and her premise could easily spark some flights of fancy in would-be Cinderellas. Ages 3-8. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
When Hilda goes to explore a deserted old windmill, she finds herself in a fantasy world filled with fairy tale characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White and the dwarfs, all of whom mistake her for Cinderella. The book's design and illustrations, which are realistic, though static, are very European and overwhelm the haphazard story. From HORN BOOK 1996, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Ages 4^-8. One day, Hilda visits an old windmill and is amazed to find it full of fairy tale characters. She's even more surprised when they all call her Cinderella. As she wanders the countryside in search of the real Cinderella, Hilda encounters Hansel and Gretel, a witch, a giant, and Tom Thumb. Finally, a horse-drawn carriage takes her to meet Cinderella herself. Unfortunately, there's not much action or character development in Hilda's adventures. However, the story's basic premise is intriguing and fun. The illustrations in pencil and watercolor have a soft pastel prettiness. For fairy-tale lovers. --Leone McDermott