As a lover of princess stories, my daughter was easily attracted to this book. Despite its pretty illustrations, I would not recommend it. The "ugly" ponies are cruel to Ponyella and bully her for vain reasons. I'd rather not read this kind of negative literature to my kids. The story of Cinderella is problematic enough; I'm not interested in an updated version that, through its villainous characters, might actually teach kids how to be cruel to each other. I really don't understand all of the positive reviews. Mommy's review from 10/4/11 - You'd be hard-pressed to find anything I thought had too much pink. This almost has too much pink for me. I think it's the covers shades of pink. For some reason the cover is too girly for me which doesn't make sense because I do girly.Anyhoo, this is an awesome story! I was kind of expecting a sugary-sweet nothingness story that would, hopefully, be fun to read. And don't get me wrong, while there are some messages to be had here, it's nothing in depth. It's basically Cinderella with a pony.But it works. Well! Ponyella rocks and she's the most awesome horse a girl could ever want!Even though Julia owns hundreds of books of her own I rarely go out with the express purpose of buying a children's book. We don't often reread them and I have a problem paying so much money for a book we'll read one and then hand to Goodwill. I'm just not rich. So we usually use the library for books like these. (Don't ask me how she's accumulated so many darn books. I guess I don't stick to my no buying rule as often as I think.)But this, I want to own. I can see us rereading this and it's a really cool book. I definitely recommend for any little girl - girly or not!
What do You think about Ponyella (2011)?
such a cute story. A ponies version of Cinderella. We loved it.
—finn
Little girls love this book and the beautiful white pony
—Raxern
Charmingly sweet. Good story. Very enjoyable.
—ted
