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Disney Girls #5
Cinderella's Castle
The Disney Girls are excited to help plan the school's holiday party. Ella decides that the perfect thing for her to make is an elaborate gingerbread castle. But creating such a complicated confection isn't easy, even for someone as super-organized as Ella. And her step family just doesn't seem to understand how important this is to her. Ella could really use a fairy godmother right now....
- GenresChildrens
96 pages, Paperback
First published November 16, 1998
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Gabrielle Charbonnet
50 books81 followersGabrielle Charbonnet lives in North Carolina.
She also writes YA titles under her pen name Cate Tiernan .
She also writes YA titles under her pen name Cate Tiernan .
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January 31, 2018
Ella wants to make changes but doesn't know how to go about doing them. And will she be able to make the gingerbread castle she really wants to make for her class holiday party? Find out in this installment of Disney Girls!
July 25, 2020
Ah, the 90s were a time. So I got into this series briefly because my mom got me the Ariel one about ballet, and I think I was slightly too old for these, and also Cinderella was probably not the best choice for me.
The only two I definitely remember reading are the Ariel/ballet one, and this one. The Ariel one I owned, and I recall finding some parts of it kind of cringy but some of it was also kind of fun and charming, and I was still the right age to find the idea of Disney princesses as real-life little girls pretty fun. Still, I think this one was just a little too much for me.
I thought it was all right, but definitely even more cringy than the Ariel one. The entire story is about Cinderella trying to make a perfect gingerbread house on her own and that not working. I think at the end her friends help her out or something? There just wasn't a lot going on, and the young-ness of the series stood out even more for me here than the Ariel story.
I may have read at least one more of these, but honestly these didn't make a super strong or amazing impression on me before I just gave up on the series.
The only two I definitely remember reading are the Ariel/ballet one, and this one. The Ariel one I owned, and I recall finding some parts of it kind of cringy but some of it was also kind of fun and charming, and I was still the right age to find the idea of Disney princesses as real-life little girls pretty fun. Still, I think this one was just a little too much for me.
I thought it was all right, but definitely even more cringy than the Ariel one. The entire story is about Cinderella trying to make a perfect gingerbread house on her own and that not working. I think at the end her friends help her out or something? There just wasn't a lot going on, and the young-ness of the series stood out even more for me here than the Ariel story.
I may have read at least one more of these, but honestly these didn't make a super strong or amazing impression on me before I just gave up on the series.
January 21, 2016
Read as a kid and now re-reading as adult as this was one of my favorite series as a child.
There are a lot of unnessecary details that we really don't need to know about as readers.
I also think the girls aren't talking like 3rd and 4th graders but more like middle school.
But very engaging character and nice moral at the end.
There are a lot of unnessecary details that we really don't need to know about as readers.
I also think the girls aren't talking like 3rd and 4th graders but more like middle school.
But very engaging character and nice moral at the end.
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