Cinderella
There is perhaps no better loved, no more universal story than Cinderella. Almostevery 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
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Approximate Word count = 1203
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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