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There was a little girl named Ella who lost her mom. Her father remarried to a woman who hated how the wonderful girl made her daughters look. The woman made her into a house maid. Then the mother would not allow her to go to the ball. A fairy god mother came, and made it were Cinderella could go.

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She married the Prince and lived happily ever after. I know how Cinderella feels. I was also a house maid not to the extent Cinderella was, but I had to help me single mom care for my brother. My parents were divorced, and my father never came around. So I know what it is like to lose a parent. I would use this book to teach the children about life. We would discuss what it is like to lose people, or things, but I would also use this time to teach the kids about how life always works out for good. I would also have shoe activity. Have the kids take off the right shoe, and put it in the center. Then on the count of three everyone would grab a shoe and put it on. Then they would have to find the person with the shoes mate. I might even do a shoe rely race. I would put a shoe at the end of the gym, and have the boys pick up a shoe, and they would have to find the girl with the matching shoe.

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One of my all time favorite folktales.

American version of the Cinderella story, but different rendering (i.e., not Disney). Reread.

Summary:

This story begins once upon a time with a nobleman, who has has remarried after his wife has passed away. His new wife and two step daughters are not at all nice, and especially to the nobleman's daughter Cinderella, who was much prettier and sweeter than all the girls around. They made her

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cook and clean for them and left her to live in the attic and sleep on straw mat, while they lived in big beautiful rooms and large comfy beds. One day the household is told that the King is hosting a ball and all the nobility was invited. With the news of the ball came more work for Cinderella, but she would not be going to the ball. Along comes Cinderella's fairy godmother who tells her to go to the garden and pick a pumpkin, so Cinderalla can also go to the ball. The fairy godmother changed the pumpkin into a coach of gold. She then turned the house mice into beautiful white horses. She also turned a rat into a coachman and lizards into footmen. Cinderella is ready to go to the ball, except that she now needs a dress. The fairy godmother turns CIndrellas rags into a beautiful golden dress and her shoes changed to glass slippers. As Cinderella leaves for the ball, the fairy godmother tells her to be home before midnight or everything will be changed back to what they were. Cinderella arrives at the ball, but no one knows who she is. The prince greets her and takes her to the ballroom to dance. Everyone notices how pretty Cinderella is and the Prince sees only her, for the rest of the evening. When the clock strikes 11:45, Cinderella races out and home, just in time for everything to change back to the way they were before the ball. The next day the step sisters inform Cinderella that there will be another ball that night. Cinderella goes again in an even prettier dress and jewels. The prince stayed with her the entire evening. As she hears the clock start to strike midnight, she races off. Everything is changing back again, but this time she leaves a glass slipper behind, which the prince finds. The next day, the step sisters tell Cinderella about the evening and how the unknown princess disappeared and left a shoe, and how the prince spent the rest of the evening looking at the shoe. It is soon announced that the prince planned to marry the woman who's foot fit the shoe. All the women in the land were asked to try it on, but it was too small for everyone. Finally it comes to Cinderella's house, where her step sisters tried but the shoe would not fit. Finally, CInderella asked to try on the shoe. The step sisters laughed but soon were in shock, when they saw that the shoe fit perfectly and when Cinderlla pulled the other shoe out of her pocket. Her fairy godmother arrives at that moment and changes Cinderella's clothes into a beautiful dress, which made everyone recognize her as the unknown princess. The step sisters begged Cinderella to forgive them for everything they had ever done to her, and she did. A few days later, she married the prince.

Personal Response:

I chose this book, because of slight change in the story telling of Cinderella. I have always been brought up on the Disney version, and liked to see that the fight for the princes attention was not there, with the step sisters, and the asking and receiving of forgiveness was attached. I also love the illustrations. The colors are vibrant and the use of curved lines, in Cinderella's dress, allowed a movement that made you believe the dress twirled on it's own.

Classroom Extensions:

In choosing another format of Cinderella, I could read both and do a compare/contrast based on the difference and similarities of the story as well as the illustrations of the characters. This could be two different nationalites of cinderella.

Building from the previous idea, this could be a social studies module on different customs on Earth.

Also building on the first idea, I could look up the different Cinderella's and use this as a geography module.

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Summary:
The story begins with explaining that a man, Cinderella's father, marrys for the second time. His new wife has two daughters, and all three treat Cinderella terribly. She is made to do the roughest chores, is forced to sleep in the attic, and oftens sits in the ashes in the chimney corner,

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which is where she got her name. After they all receive an announcement to the upcoming ball, Cinderella willingly helps her stepsisters get ready. When they leave for the ball she begins to cry and her godmother appears. Cinderella's godmother asks Cinderella to bring her a pumpkin, which she turns into a golden coach, six mice which she turns into six horses, a rat into a coachman and then six lizards into six footmen. Finally, she turns Cinderella's clothes from rags to a beautiful ball dress with jewels. Cinderella heads off to the ball, however her godmother warns her to be home before midnight or her coach will turn back into a pumpkin, footman back into lizards and her clothes back into rags. After she arrives at the ball the room is silent and in awe at the sight of Cinderella, especially the prince. She sits among her very own stepsisters who don't recognize Cinderella, although shes very nice to them. She receives numerous compliments from the prince but at the first stroke of midnight she remembers what her godmother had said and runs out of the ball, losing one of her glass slippers on the way. A few days later the prince announced he would marry the woman whose foot fit the lost glass slipper. A man then brings the slipper to the girl's home and Cinderella's sisters try hard to get the slipper on, with no luck. Cinderella then asks to try it on and it fit her foot perfectly, so she took the other slipper out of her pocket and put it on also. Her godmother then reappeared and turns her rags into even more beautiful clothes than before the ball. Before Cinderella is taken to the prince her two stepsisters ask for forgiveness which Cinderella immediately gives. Just days later she marrys her prince and then even finds two nobleman for her sisters to marry.
Personal reaction:
As a girl, the story of Cinderella will always be a favorite of mine. I love fairy tales and this one will always be one of the best. This is a classic story and even though it has many different versions, it is a story that everyone is familiar with. I love the "happily ever after..." type of storys that portray the idea of Prince Charming, it's every little girls dream. But I also never realized until reading this specific book that the idea of forgiveness and goodness is shown as well. I enjoyed the ending when Cinderella immediately forgave her stepsisters for treating her so badly and then also begged them to always love her. Although the main moral of this story is about being true to yourself and working hard to overcome hardships, I think forgiveness is also portrayed along with the idea that money and material items are not important. When someone loves you, they see through the nice clothing just as the prince did with Cinderella. Goodness shines through.
Classroom extentions:
1. For an art project in a younger class, I would have the children create their very own glass slipper, possibly just using construction paper and gluing glitter one it. We could discuss the different ones among the students and how although they are different they are all beautiful in their own way.
2. I would discuss siblings and the right and wrong ways we should treat them, possibly discussing the idea of forgiveness depending ont he age of the students.

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When Cinderella lost her mother her father remarried a evil women. Her new stepmother had two daughters of her own and they were not very pleasant. They made Cinderella their slave. She had to do everything for them! One day all the women got invited to the prince's ball. Cinderella was not allowed

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to go. When her stepsisters left she began to cry. Then out of no where a fairy godmother appeared. She used her magic to make Cinderella beautiful so she can go to the ball, but she had to be back at twelve. When she arrived at the ball the prince immediately noticed her and asked her to dance. Suddenly the clock struck twelve and Cinderella ran out, but left her shoe. This is how the prince found Cinderella and they lived happily ever after. This is a great book to show children when teaching about fairy tales. It is a classic that has many versions from around the world.

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I really liked this original tale of Cinderella. This was just like the ones I had heard as a child so I of course loved it. I also liked that this story just said that the shoe was too small for the step sisters and did not say they cut their toes off like the Grimm stories do. The illustrations

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in this story were a little strange. Cinderella looks pretty but everyone else has a warped look to them and I feel as though this enhances their characters. I really liked this story.

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Original Cinderella story, with minor changes from Disney's adaptation. Interesting that the ball occurs in two nights. I would use this in my classroom.

I liked this version of the classic story of Cinderella. This version is similar to the Walt Disney verson. The only very noticeable difference is that in this story Cinderella attends to different balls. I loved the illustrations as well.

Classic tale of Cinderella where the step family is ultimately forgiven.
Lower elementary
Read aloud
32 pages
THEMES- classic, fairy tale, forgiveness, family, relationships

"Illustrations featuring mix of styles in both clothing and architecture set the story in an imaginary yet vaguely familiar landscape, lit by a dreamlike haze. The smoothly told story...contains the familiar details and a happy ending in which Cinderella forgives her stepfamily." (The Horn Book

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Club)
This satisfying tale never grows old. Koopman's illustrations are jewel-toned and Cinderella herself...is attractive as a person and figure." (Yellow Brick Road)

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The original Cinderella who has an awful lifestyle to begin with. The stepmother and stepsisters make it worse. They only care about themselves and regard Cinderella as trash. When the King chooses to invite the nobles for a ball, Cinderella comes looking the most stunning. She was helped by her

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fairy godmother who turned rats into horses, rags into a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. A really nice read for 3-5 graders.

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I was interesting to read the original story. I had never read this version before.

Summary: This version of Cinderella is very similar to the original French version. Cinderella's father gets married and her new stepmother and stepsisters are very unkind to Cinderella and make her do many tedious chores around the house. The stepsisters were invited to a ball that was being

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hosted by the prince. Cinderella helped them to choose their outfits and do their hair so that they would look nice for the ball even though she was not going. After the stepsisters had left Cinderella's fairy godmother found her crying in the garden because she could not go to the ball. She turned a pumpkin into a carriage, mice into horses, a rat into a coachman, and lizards into footmen. She then transformed Cinderella's old clothes into a beautiful gown and just like that she was off to the ball. At the ball she danced with the prince many times and was kind toward her stepsisters who did not recognize her. At the stroke of midnight she ran away from the ball but lost a slipper on the way out. The prince proclaimed that he would marry the girl who the slipper fit and so a search ensued throughout the kingdom. The slipper did not fit either stepsister but it slid easily onto Cinderella's foot and she had the match to go with it. She married the prince and arranged for her sisters to be married as well.

Review: This version of Cinderella is what would probably be considered the most commonly told. It is very similar to the movie and only leaves out a few details that the movie includes mostly for entertainment purposes. The author does a good job of choosing which elements of the story are important so that the book is not too long. The ending was slightly different than what I am used to because in this version Cinderella let her sisters come live at the palace and she found noblemen for them to marry. In this version Cinderella did not talk to the mice and birds and Lucifer the cat was not around causing trouble. I think that the central message of the story stayed the same despite these differences. The author did a good job of conveying a message of being a good person and staying true to yourself. The illustrations were very interesting because only the ones on the first and last page were in color. They were very detailed and the reader was able to use their imagination to add color and other effects. I really liked the one illustration that was drawn as a reflection in the water because it was from a unique perspective.

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This is a picture book is a telling of the classic story that so many children are familiar with and love. Students will love reading this book and seeing the illustrations that are different than the Disney version of Cinderella that they know so well.

Cinderella by Charles Perrault is the author's version of the popular fairy tale, Cinderella. The author varies little from the commonalities of the known story. This story would be good to share with students to compare versions of Cinderella. This book is enjoyable for all ages to read.

As I picked up this book, I assumed it was going to be the same story/fairytale that everyone knows (and hopefully loves!). It is very similar, while there are some differences in the story. But I enjoyed the story overall! The only thing that confused me a little bit was the corresponding

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illustrations. With such a popular story such as Cinderella, I have a clear image in my head of what the princess is supposed to look like along with the other characters as well as the setting. The illustrations that are paired with this story are extremely abstract and, in my personal opinion, are a little hard to look at! There are certain images that can be made out such as the clock striking midnight, the rat turned into a coachman, and Cinderella’s tattered dress turned into a stunning ball gown. However, I just don’t’ think that this particular portrayal of the images for this story is quite right for the storyline of Cinderella. Also, some of the illustrations are on the same page as the text and I had a hard time reading those particular words and phrases covered by the illustrations. I’m not quite sure if the illustrator did that for a specific purpose, but if not, I think that those illustrations should be moved to make it easier for the reader to actually read the story.
This interpretation of the story is also a little more advanced than the “normal”, “popular” version. There are vocabulary words that are more advanced such as “companion”, “astonished”, “recognized”, and “embroidered”. If this book was read aloud to a class, there would need to be some previous discussion about words such as these or the discussion would need to happen as soon as the teacher read the word. This way, the students would be learning more vocabulary through a familiar storyline.

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Brown translates, adapts, and illustrates the classic fairytale from Charles Perrault, who himself adapted fairy tales in the 17th century. Brown's version highlights Cinderella's kindness and perseverance, as well as her willingness to forgive her stepsisters. The illustrations are light and airy,

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giving the story a sense of joy and whimsy. I like Brown's prose style, which flows easily for reading aloud while including some older figures of speech. C is undiscriminating when it comes to fairy tales but seems to gravitate toward this version and we read it often.

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