"Cinderella's Rat", written by Susan Meddaugh, is a very cute fiction book. This book tells the Cinderella folktale from the rat's perspective. The rat was very happy when Cinderella's fairy godmother changed him into a coachman. But the coachman was not satisfied he wanted his sister to be changed from a rat to a girl. So they went to a wizard and asked for help. Instead of turning his sister into a girl the wizard turned her into a cat that barked like a dog, and then he turned her into a girl. The only problem is she still barked like a dog. The hours pasted and then it turned midnight and the coachman turned by into a rat, but his sister was still a girl that barked. I think that this would be a great book for a third grader to read. A teacher could also have the studens read the book and compare it to the original Cinderella folktale.
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