Jewel Kats


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Topics of conversation:

  • Conversation between two young readers and author
  • Using fairy tales to teach lessons about disabilities
  • Overcoming the victim syndrome
  • Societal thoughts:  Princesses and wheelchairs don't mix

Jewel Kats is an award-winning writer. For six years, she penned a teen advice column for Young People’s Press. “Confidentially Yours” appeared in dozens of newspapers via the Scripps Howard News Service and TorStar Syndication Services. Her work on this column led her to win a $5,000 writing scholarship by women’s publisher, Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. She later earned a $15,000 scholarship from Global Television Network.

Cinderella’s Magical Wheelchair: An Empowering Fairy Tale

Jewel Kats  
Loving Healing Press (2011) 
ISBN 9781615991129
Reviewed by Madeline (age 10) & Sophia (age 8) McElroy for Reader Views kids s (9/11)
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt, MS, PPS, for Reader Views (8/11)

Read the review on ReaderViewsKids.com

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Synopsis: In a Kingdom far, far away lives Cinderella. As expected, she slaves away for her cranky sisters and step-mother. She would dearly love to attend the Royal costume ball and meet the Prince, but her family is totally dead set against it. In fact, they have gone so far as to trash her wheelchair! An unexpected magical endowment to her wheelchair begins a truly enchanted evening and a dance with the Prince. Can true love be far behind?

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