Everything you need to understand or teach Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire.
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a retelling of Perrault's classic "Cinderella". It's a fantasy only in a sense: the story itself has no magic, yet suggestions of magic permeate the text. This Cinderella story has the same characters as the original, but the perspective is reversed. Maguire tells his story from the viewpoint of one of the stepsisters, Iris, who is neither ugly nor evil, but multi-faceted and ordinary. Maguire's Cinderella is...
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Lesson Plans contain 152 pages of teaching material, including: