Axolotl Ella

<b>Cinderella has never been so adorable--or amphibious!--as in this fractured fairytale picture book by <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Kate Messner, with art by award-winning illustrator Lian Cho.</b><br><br>Axolotl-Ella is a quick and clever salamander with a daring, deliciously ambitious dream. All she needs to do to make her dream a reality is to meet the Prince at the King’s Festival. So with a little bit of magic from the lake of the night, Ella makes her skin gleam and her gills glow--and conjures the perfect outfit for a fancy party!<br><br>But the Prince talks <i>a lot</i>, and the magic wears off at midnight. Can Axolotl-Ella find a way to make her dream come true, or will she be stuck at the murky lake with her annoying stepsisters forever?<br><br>Bestselling author Kate Messner has created a funny, empowering retelling of the Cinderella story with a confident heroine who''s <i>way</i> too practical for glass slippers. Complemented with laugh-out-loud illustrations by award-winning illustrator Lian Cho, and filled with amusing axolotl facts, <i>Axolotl-Ella</i> is destined to become a storytime favorite.