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A review by phillybear
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella: A Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman
4.0
Illustrated by- Julie Paschkis
Published- New York : Holt, 2007.
ISBN- 0-8050-7953-X
Awards- Red Clover Nominee
Genre- Fairy Tale
This is a wonderful retelling of the Cinderella story that we all know and love. It incorporates the story from other cultures as well including Mexico, Indonesia and Iran to name a few. The story starts with a young girl and her loving father. The young girl wants her father to remarry the nice woman down the road who gives her treats. Her father conceeds and marries the woman who turns our to be horrible. She makes Cinderella work and take care of her two lazy daughters. When there is to be a ball at the palace the evil stepmother comes up with work that Cinderella must do so that she cannot go. Cinderella gets help from the animals to complete the work and help from an old woman who gets her dressed and transportation. When she arrives at the ball no one knows who she is not even her stepmother. She delights the prince and they dance but soon she must leave. He chases her and catches her shoe, which he uses to search the kingdom for her. Her stepmother wraps her in a rug when she discovers the prince is on his way. She tries to get her two daughters to fit into the shoe but neither do and the animals tell the prince where Cinderalla is. He finds her and they live happily ever after.
I love that the author does a great job meshing all of the different versions together in this story. The illustrations are wonderful as well. I think this story is a great book to read to kids to show them how cultures change stories.
Published- New York : Holt, 2007.
ISBN- 0-8050-7953-X
Awards- Red Clover Nominee
Genre- Fairy Tale
This is a wonderful retelling of the Cinderella story that we all know and love. It incorporates the story from other cultures as well including Mexico, Indonesia and Iran to name a few. The story starts with a young girl and her loving father. The young girl wants her father to remarry the nice woman down the road who gives her treats. Her father conceeds and marries the woman who turns our to be horrible. She makes Cinderella work and take care of her two lazy daughters. When there is to be a ball at the palace the evil stepmother comes up with work that Cinderella must do so that she cannot go. Cinderella gets help from the animals to complete the work and help from an old woman who gets her dressed and transportation. When she arrives at the ball no one knows who she is not even her stepmother. She delights the prince and they dance but soon she must leave. He chases her and catches her shoe, which he uses to search the kingdom for her. Her stepmother wraps her in a rug when she discovers the prince is on his way. She tries to get her two daughters to fit into the shoe but neither do and the animals tell the prince where Cinderalla is. He finds her and they live happily ever after.
I love that the author does a great job meshing all of the different versions together in this story. The illustrations are wonderful as well. I think this story is a great book to read to kids to show them how cultures change stories.