Cinderella Translated by Marcia Brown

This book is one of my Traditional or Folk Literature books.

This book is a version of the original Cinderella. This book tells of how Cinderella's step mother makes her do all the horrible chores and does not allow her to go to the ball when the sisters go to the ball. Cinderella cries and her godmother, who is a fairy, appears and turns her into the beautiful person she is with or with out her rags. She goes to the ball the first night and returns promptly before midnight, then on the second night she forgets about the warning and runs out at the stick of midnight, leaving her glass slipper behind. When a man comes around fitting the shoe on all the ladies of the land, Cinderella sees her slipper and laughingly says let me see if it will fit. The sister laugh and make fun, then when they see that it fits and she has the matching one, they fall to their knees and beg for forgiveness of their horrible ways. Cinderella forgives her sisters and when she moves into the palace she marries the Prince and marries both her sisters off to courts men. I would use this story to tell about folk literature and about how no matter what you look like or how you are treated, there is someone out there for you. I would teach students about how there are different versions of the same story.