The Chinese Cinderella, by Tuan Ch'Eng-Shih, is the earliest version found, dates back to 850-860AD. There is even an African version of the tale recorded in the Hausa language and translated into English in 1965. Among other cultural versions are: the Native American version "Oochigeaskw - "The Rough-Faced Girl"; and the most familiar to today's readers is Charles Perrault's version.

In these variations of the "Cinderella" story, many commonalities exist -- Likewise many other ghastly details differentiate them. I choose to expose my 4-year

Realizing that originally these fairy tales were written for adults and later adapted for children. I try to view each one of them as the literary treasure they are. I did not like all the Cinderella versions I read, however, I appreciated the cultural view and the flexibility /adaptability of the fairy tale. They were adapted, re-scripted, reshaped, and still thrive in the old forms as well as in new version - both written and verbal.

I cannot, on the other hand, find myself reading to my 4 year-old, the Brothers Grimm version. It concludes with the sisters, getting their well deserve punishment: "The doves came along and pecked out one of the elder sister's eyes and one of the younger sister's eyes...later one the dove pecked out both the remaining eyes. So both sisters were punished with blindness to the end of their days"...(WRAC pg. 607).

-old daughter to Perrault Cinderella version.

Although in all the Cinderella's variations the characters and events are exaggerated somew

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