I love the story of "Tattercoats" - which is a version of Cinderella minus the evil stepmother/stepsisters - so I was really excited for this fairy tale retelling. It's beautifully told, but I ended up caring more about Tallie and Silas and her found family than about the romance arc with the prince. 5 stars as a fantasy fairy tale retelling, 3 stars as a romance.

Every Goose A Swan is one of, if not the best, fairy tale retellings I've read in a long time. And the two bonuses at the end of the book are a real treasure, beautifully complementing the main tale.
I can't wait to read more stories from this author!
I thank the author and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.
The opinion I have expressed above is based solely on what I think and feel about this book.

Every Goose a Swan is a loose adaptation of Cinderella. This was a very clean and sweet story! I loved all the characters! I found the retelling to be true to the original! Thus, this made for a light and easy read! I recommend this for fans of Melanie Dickerson, K. M.Shea, and Shannon Hale!

This was a very sweet retelling with fun, magical twists. It was a quick read, which can be nice to bolster a reading slump. Tallie was kind, and I like that she was demure and soft-spoken. I do enjoy a brash and bold character, but it feels like a lot of retellings try to make their female characters that way in order to restore agency to the original characters and it makes many of them run together. To have a character who was kind and learning to accept love with ease was very refreshing.
I'm not entirely sure who the audience for this would be, as I expected YA but maybe could skew younger.
I know this is part of a series that can be read as a stand alone, but it's apparent from the epilogue that they are all connected through their "guardians or godmothers".
I received a copy via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is such a sweet fairy tale read - I'm really enjoying this lovely series, which feels like a much more gentle take on the fairy tale retelling trend. Tattercoats is an interesting offshoot of Cinderella-type tales, and I really enjoyed the very classic feeling of the way things played out. Tallie was a lovely heroine to spend time with, and the plot is fairly light and simple, so it's just a really nice, warm read that felt very charming.

Absolutely in love with this retelling!!! I’m always a sucker for a good retelling (especially for Cinderella or the 12 Dancing Princesses), and this Cinderella one was beautifully told. Short and sweet, “Every Goose A Swan” makes for a perfect quick read.

A sweet fairy tale, that although you know what the ending will be keeps you turning the pages.

The characters are engaging and it certainly took me back to my childhood.

A lovely read.

This is the perfect little read that you need sometimes when you’re feeling down. I got this as an ARC from NetGalley and it helped me get out of my reading slump. It’s a very quick 200 page read and a very cute retelling of cinderella. Since it is such a short story everything happens very fast in it but I still loved it.

This was written well and very detailed in the beginning, but I felt as if the ending was a bit thrown together and could have been lengthened out, explained a little more and if not as rushed the book would have better pacing. The plot itself was solid and the book was a pleasant surprise.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review.

A wholesome and heartwarming retelling of 'Tattercoats'. Tattercoats is a story I haven't come across before so I wasn't entirely sure what to expect but it's very reminiscent of Cinderella in which a young girl is denied her rightful place within her household by her grandfather. Tallie and her gooseherd friend travel to a royal festival, along the way meeting a kind young man who both captivates and is captivated by Tallie. The story was short and so charming, I had a lovely time reading it. Woven throughout was the important message of knowing your own worth no matter what others say or think of you.

*I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Sweet story giving a modern version of a traditional take on Cinderella. This type of story is one of the sources for our modern Cinderella

This book was such a breath of fresh air. It was wholesome and whimsical and very much felt like a soft, disney-style fairytale that put a smile on my face while reading!

I don't even have a subcategory for fairy tales, I read so few of them; though I loved fantasy from the gitgo, that excluded fairy tales after I turned seven and was given a Hans Christian Andersen collection. Though I was never exactly clueful, even I began to see that if a character was a girl (or even a female thing, such as the toy ballerina) they came to no good. I read everything dutifully in those days, and I distinctly recall anxiously surveying the opening of the next story, hoping it would be about a boy because then it had a better chance of a happy ending. Two years later, I checked out from the school library an anthology called Tales of Laughter, which started off with "The Little Mermaid." Laughter? Really?

Many years after that, I read the tales gathered by the Grimm brothers in German, and found myself far more interested in the glimpses of the splintered cultures caused by the Thirty Years War in the tales than in the tales themselves (which could be both weird and bloody). But they were firmly categorized as fairy tales in those days.

So . . . I've tended to side-eye fairy tales ever since. That said, I'm twice as glad when I come across fairy tales I enjoy. And "Tattercoats" was once of those. When I saw on NetGalley that this retelling engaged with "Tattercoats", I grabbed it, and I'm so glad I did. I now have a perfect gift idea for two nieces, who are exactly at the age to enjoy this book.

What we have here is not a novel, but a novella, with a novelette/short story, a short piece, and a glimpse of a tale to come. They are all delightful. The author is faithful to the story beats of the Tattercoats tale, which today might suffer for some readers for the insta-love aspect; here, Tallie is given such a sunny personality, and the prince so thoughtful and kindly a character, that one can believe that this couple didn't need any longer than a smile and a dance to fall in love. As can happen in real life.

The best part of the tale, though, wasn't Tattercoats' story, but that of the faun Silvanus, whose character was instantly appealing. As Tallie's friend the goose herd, seeming more than he is, he was intriguing and charismatic, and I was glad to see he got a tale of his own in the next story.

I can see kid readers adoring this book, and older readers who are in the mood for something they can read late at night and know that when they put the book down they will be smiling. Such a sprightly, lovely book!

A very short and sweet novella retelling. This one leaned a bit too much into instalove for my taste. This was a novella, but I think it would have benefitted from a few more chapters, as the story was very quick and without much development.

Cute short retellings. romance happened too fast for my personal taste, but overall it was what I was expecting when I got the book.

A delightful retelling of the lesser known Cinderella version, "Tattercoat". I adored the main character, she was strong, sweet, feminine, and good-hearted. I cheered for her and the ending was completely satisfying - just what I needed for a rainy day! A very sweet romance sure to melt every heart!

I enjoyed this one. The writing was really strong and detailed descriptions and settings really helped me picture the story as I read.

In Every Goose a Swan, Pamela Sherwood tells an important tale of kindness, resilience, and love through the vehicle of a Cinderella retelling. Tallie has grown up on an estate, her grandfather a member of the landed gentry. Enviable? Not at all. When her mother married against her grandfather's wishes and died in childbirth, the old man vowed never to look on his granddaughter, so Tallie grew up lonely, despised, and mistreated by the servants and staff. If not for her kind old nurse and a mysterious gooseherd, she may have never known her worth, but with the help of old Martha and quirky Silas, she learned that she was kind, strong, and worthy of attention.
When her grandfather is summoned to a festival honoring the king's son, recently returned from abroad, Tallie hopes to go, but her grandfather ignores her and threatens Martha when she tries to fight for Tallie. As her grandfather's carriage pulls away, Silas persuades Tallie to go to the festival with him...and his geese. When ruffians threaten them on the journey, a stranger comes to their aid and accompanies them to Riversedge where the festival is being held. As they cover the distance to Riversedge, the handsome stranger and Tallie fall for each other, and when he begs that she attend the ball as his guest, she is so blinded by her love, that she agrees. Only as the ball draws near does she begin to question her lack of gown, her ignorance of dances and courtly etiquette. Silas reminds her that she gave her word, but she has no idea what she will find when she enters the royal ballroom.
Once again, Sherwood has given readers a timeless tale in beautiful style that shows how much we all share -- the need to be accepted, the power of love, the value of knowing one's worth. I loved every word of Every Goose a Saw, and the companion stories that accompany it show her talent in fleshing out the stories of the past to given them new life.

A sweet and heartwarming retelling of "Tattercoats," a lesser-known Cinderella variation from Britain, in which there's no evil stepmother and no fairy godmother but the neglected grandchild of an embittered lord who forces her to live like a pauper at his own household, and a gooseherd as the kind soul that makes it possible for her to go to the ball and meet the prince.

There's no glass slipper here, either, not that it makes it any the less lovelier. And Pamela Sherwood captured the warmth and cheerfulness of the original quite well. I liked especially how she expanded on the relationship between Tallie, the lord's grandchild, and Silas, the gooseherd. In the original, there's so little about their rapport, and he disappears once she's chosen by the prince as his bride. Not here, he gets his own happily ever after, and the chemistry between him and Tallie, of a fatherly nature, was to me better than between her and Morgan. He basically stole the plot for me, and I almost didn't want Tallie to become a princess to keep reading about her, Silas, and the lovely people from her grandfather's household, so I was happy that the story ends satisfyingly with him.