every country in the world has a version of it, but the favorite of story-tellers must be the

French version by Charles Perrault. In the translation of Perrault's beloved fairy tale,

Marcia Brown offers a lively retelling which is made truly magical by some of the most

exquisite pictures we have ever seen. Brown's adaptation of Perrault's story, Cinderella

or The Little Glass Slipper, is a rags to riches story of a mistreated, beautiful young girl

who, with the help of her fairy godmother, becomes the wife of a Prince. It is an

excellently written and illustrated children's book that should be on the shelf of any child

as well as any serious student of children literature.

In the beginning of the book, when the stepmother married Cinderella's father, she

and her two daughters became wealthy instantly, but to them it still wasn't enough. They

couldn't stand any competition and they felt Cinderella posed that threat. Cinderella's evil

stepmother "could not abide this young girl, whose goodness made her own daughters

seem more hateful than ever." Therefore, "She gave her the vilest household tasks; it was

coordinated with the text of the fairy tale. On every page in the book, Brown placed and

from them and even dresses both of their hair. Even though some of us would have tried

Brown's Cinderella, these guidelines of the universal tale of Cinderella were followed

At the end of Cinderella, the reader, no matter what age he or she is, should be

Throughout Marcia Brown's Cinderella, the author included ravishing and radiant

As the story ventures on, the reader is introduced to the fairy godmother, who

helps Cinderella in proceeding to the ball. But before she is able to depart, the fairy

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