This is a fun twist on the classic fairytale Cinderella, the illustrations were amazing and added to the spooky and gory theme to this. When the town receives an unusual visitor in the guise of a prince whose culinary tastes are on the bloody side and whose bed is more wood and dirt than cushions and frame, Cinderella's life is about to take a dark turn. The story starts with a mysterious librarian discovering a forgotten bookshelf with rotten books (like rotten fruits! For three nights only she becomes Zombierella and is able to attend the prince’s balls travelling in a mushroom coach pulled by her skeletal steed Lumpkin, she seeks revenge on her fake sisters and mesmferises the vampire prince with her beauty. Altogether this is a joyful achievement and I hope to see more 'Fairy Tales Gone Bad' in the future.

Lo que si veo es que no es una historia demasiado infantil, porque a veces es un poco escatologica y otras bastante truculenta. You can also download icebreaker questions to help get your discussion started, and a social media guide to show how you can share your reading with others online. I adored every page and I was looking at the illustrations for a longtime because they were just stunning! I enjoyed the book and my favourite character is Lumpkin because I love horses and I thought that he had a great personality. The first in a funny, deliciously dark, three-part series of twisted classics, written in verse by award-winning poet Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Freya Hartas.citation needed] In the group's name, "Messer" is taken from the German word for "knife" and "Chups" from Chupa Chups lollipops. This story carries both moral and message about kindness and love - and unlike the original - a dose of forgiveness to boot. Es el clásico cuento de cenicienta de Disney con una combinación del cuento de los hermanos Grimm, acompañado de ilustraciones HERMOSAS que hacen que leerlo sea todo un espectáculo.

This is one of the most creative adaptations of Cinderella I have ever read -- and despite its whimsy, big font, and easy-ish language, one of the darkest I've ever read, too! Pues nuestros amados libros nunca mueren, de hecho hay algunos que evolucionan gracias a su capacidad de reinventarse para mantenerse vigentes. Does the book contain anything that teachers would wish to know about before recommending in class (strong language, sensitive topics etc. She runs away to escape the mansion at midnight, and there she gets stuck on the steps with the glue. It's a hilariously gruesome take on Cinderella, who rises from the dead to attend the ball of a sinister prince who travels from town to town setting up house to hunt for fresh "brides" in every area.

After that, he united with his bride and true love’s kiss made them both alive to live a happily ever after! I especially liked the amusing twists on the classic tale, like Zombierella leaving behind a foot instead of a glass slipper. And I can't not talk about the illustrations, because the art (by Freya Hartas) is just as major a feature in this book as the poetry (by Joseph Coelho), and it's also GORGEOUS. El bibliotecario del principio y final me ha gustado mucho, ¡y estoy deseando leer más cuentos de hadas estropeados!

In 2003, Oleg Tarasov, the producer of Messer Chups and head of their home label Solnze Records, invited the world famous theremin player Lydia Kavina to join them.I loved the book it was spectacular because I don’t normally read fairytales because I don’t really like them but I like Hansel and gretel and the boy who cried wolf but Zombierella I love stories which have a twist a scary twist 5stars if not a million! Prince was not convinced of the eldest sister being his bride, because it was the wrong leg that was missing, then the next sister chopped off the right foot but it was too short/or long the remaining one, so again the Prince was not convinced, and then the third sister chopped off the right foot on the right size, but again the Prince figured out that none of them is his beloved Zombierella. As well as an amazing re-telling there are wonderful messages throughout the book about being kind and forgiveness too.