The Cinderella Diary: A "Not-So-Grimm Faerie Tale"

By Lee Green Pope

The Cinderella Diary started out as a play and was produced at different times at Biloxi Little Theatre, Gulfport Little Theatre, and the Mississippi Coast Coliseum. Over 200 young people performed in the separate casts of the productions. The audiences for all of these performances added up to several thousand of young people, parents, relatives, and friends.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 22, 2008
• ISBN: 9781496940179

Lee Green Pope

Lee Green Pope is an author, playwright, acting coach, storyteller, award-winning theatrical director, and published freelance writer. In addition to her many theatrical awards, she received the National Jefferson Award from the American Institute for Public Service. This award was cofounded by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Sen. Robert Taft. Mrs. Pope has written and directed twenty youth plays, and all of them have been produced at various theatres. In addition, she has adapted and directed four Shakespeare plays that were presented with original music and dance. She has presented playwriting workshops at Mississippi Theatre Association conventions, Southeastern Theatre conventions, and Gulfport Little Theatre. She has conducted summer theatre camps for young people, ages four to eighteen, which included basics of theatre and young playwrights’ workshops, and she has been a storyteller at libraries and elementary schools. This is the fourth in her “not so Grimm faerie tale” series, which include The Twelve Outrageous Dancing Princesses, The Enchanted Toyshop, and The Cinderella Diary. By the way, Lee Green Pope has a beautiful black and white Siberian husky named Sasha.

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© 2008 Lee Green Pope. All rights reserved.

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First published by AuthorHouse 10/16/2008

ISBN: 978-1-4389-1895-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-4017-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008909115

This is the second book in the Not-So-Grimm Faerie Tale Series.

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DEDICATION:

This storybook is dedicated to all the theatre kids that I have directed when they performed in Cinderella on the stage.

THANK YOU:

Special thanks and love to my husband Hardy Pope and my daughter Cassie Conner for all their patience, encouragement, understanding and support.

Dear Diary

My name is Ella but everyone calls me Cinderella. My stepmother named me that because I sometimes sit by the cinders in the fireplace. It wasn’t always like this. I have a faint memory of a time when I was just a very little girl, and I was with my mother and father. I was having so much fun that day riding in a pony cart. We were all very happy. Something happened back then, I don’t know what it was but now I live with my stepmother and my stepsisters Hattie, Hortense and Cleomartine.

I am sitting by the fireplace as I write this. My Stepmother and stepsisters have gone shopping but Stepmother said that I had to stay home and make the beds, wash the dishes, sweep the floors, and dust the furniture.

I’ve finally finished all my chores so now I can really enjoy this time writing in my diary. The minute everyone leaves, my feathered and furry friends come out to keep me company. My pet mice Snip and Snap are sleeping on my dust cloth. Sweetie Bird is sitting on the windowsill singing a song and Cookie my calico cat is sleeping next to me. Sometimes we have a party and everyone sings and dances. Well, everyone except Cookie; she just keeps time by tapping her tail.

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Suddenly there was a loud knock on the door and Stepmother yelled out, Cinderella come open the door!

Cinderella hurriedly closed her diary and put it in her apron pocket.

Snip and Snap were so startled that they jumped ten inches into the air and then scurried into their mouse hole. Sweetie Bird flew out of the window and Cookie scampered into the pantry.

Cinderella rushed to open the door and Stepmother and the three stepsisters came bustling in shouting orders.

Cinderella, carry my packages to my room.

"Cinderella, put some coal