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The earliest recorded Cinderella tale is thought to date from ninth-century China. Traveling across the globe, it changed its clothes but not its essence. When the story reached France, it acquired the glass slippers and coachmen-mice familiar to Western readers. More than a thousand other versions are known.
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Fleischman takes us to seventeen different countries to tell this tale that's nearly as old as time. From Mexico, we learn that our heroine encouraged her father to wed the kind widow f ...more
Fleischman takes us to seventeen different countries to tell this tale that's nearly as old as time. From Mexico, we learn that our heroine encouraged her father to wed the kind widow f ...more
I love the intention, the idea behind Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella: to blend the thousands of Cinderella tales into one multicultural version. Sadly, however, it fails in its delivery. The story is disjointed, and if I were a little kid reading or hearing Cinderella for the first time, I would be downright confused by Fleischman's telling. I'm an adult familiar with Cinderella and I had to re-read pages.
For example, on the page where Cinderella receives gifts to wear to the ...more
For example, on the page where Cinderella receives gifts to wear to the ...more
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