"Anna Meagan"

"Anna Meagan" is a retelling of the classic Cinderella fairy tale. It is the Aggie version of Cinderella. The story follows the original closely, but the setting and the characters are a little different. Anna Megan works as a custodian in the Commons so that she can pay her way through college. The other girls in her dorm make fun of her because of the way she dresses and because she cleans up after them. No matter what, Anna Meagan is always kind and friendly to them. She is a very sweet, charming girl.

Instead of a ball, Anna Meagan wishes to go to the Senior Ring Dance. Instead of a fairy godmother with a wand, she has Reveille with a magical Twelfth Man Towel. The carriage that takes her to the dance is a wagon with the cannon driven by members of the Parsons Mounted Cavalry. Prince charming is a Senior Cadet in the Corps. Anna Meagan loses her glass slipper at the dance and the Cadet runs a story in The Battalion the next day about the beautiful girl he met at the dance. Girls line up under the Century Tree the next day to try on the glass slipper. Of course, Anna Meagan tries it on, it fits, and they walked around campus talking.

I really enjoyed reading this version of Cinderella. I not only liked it because it was the Aggie version, but I could really relate to the story. I know all of the places that were illustrated in the story and I know real people that are similar to the characters. The story of Anna Meagan takes place on the campus that I live on and walk every day. While reading the other Cinderella tales, I could imagine the setting of where the story took place. While reading "Anna Meagan," I already knew what the places looked like. This book was well-written and the illustrations were beautiful and captured well the buildings and places of A & M.