Contents
Cinderella; or the little glass slipper — Fanny's telephone order — The raindrops' new dresses — Sir Gobble — What is it? — John's bright idea — A sad Thanksgiving party — Guy and the bee — A mean boy — A naughty pumpkin's fate — Something about fires — The ice-king's reign — Malmo, the wounded rat — Mama's happy Christmas — Cured of carelessness — A visit from a prince — Stringing cranberries — Christmas in California — A troublesome call — Bertie's corn-popper — Fire! Fire!! Fire!!! — The dolls and the other dolls — Why did Mamma change her mind? — Clara's "funeral" — The chickadee-dee — The children's party — Brave Tomasso — Tommy Frost sees a bear — Myself — Two strange sights — A cat's instincts — Dinah's New Year's present — Night flowers — The first snow-storm — Fred's stolen ride — A Valentine party — The venturesome rat — The bears' feast — Patty-sayings — Babie's curls — The red apples — Bubbles — A horse who wore snow shoes — The angry bobolink — How Hiram spent his shrimp money — The ant's house — The foolish pug — The silhouette party — The snow birds — A kind heart — Towser talks — Just as she pleased — The working tools of insects.
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper is a book illustrated by Marcia Brown. Released by Scribner Press, the book is a retelling of the story of Cinderella as written by Charles Perrault, and was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1955. The book takes place in France, in a palace similar to other Cinderella stories.
A widower marries a haughty woman with two daughters of her own. Both the woman and the two daughter hates the man's daughter called Cinderella. Cinderella is very gentle and beautiful. However, her step-mother and sisters treat her very awful and mean. Cinderella is always assigned to do all the chores around the house and also sleeps in the attic. One day, it is announced that the prince is having a royal ball and invites all the ladies of quality to the ball. Cinderella wants to go the ball but she can't because she is forced to stay home and clean the whole house. Cinderella starts crying as her stepsister goes to the ball while she has to stay and clean. As Cinderella was crying and cleaning, her fairy godmother appears out of nowhere and asks, "why are you crying". Cinderella explains why she is upset to her fairy godmother.
After, Cinderella explains everything, her fairy godmother uses her magic power to help Cinderella. The fairy godmother transforms all the mice, lizards, and rats into horses and coachmen for the golden coach. Not only did the fairy godmother turned the animals into horse and coachman but as well, she gave Cinderella a gown made of gold and silver and slippers made of glass. The only thing her fairy godmother asks is to get home by midnight because the magic will end. Entering the ball, Cinderella goes unrecognized by her stepsisters and dazzles everyone there, especially the prince. The prince pays her special attention because he has never seen her before. As, Cinderella dances with the prince, she loses track of time and must leave the ball. Fleeing away from the ball and the prince, one of her glass slippers falls. The prince tries to keep up with her but he couldn't, so he picks up the glass slipper and vows to find her and marry the one that fits the glass slipper.
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The morality and grace are primary themes and are shown through the main character's (Cinderella) ability to achieve success through perseverance and positive behavior when faced with negative circumstances.
Overall, this is a excellent book for children.
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