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Cinderella Stories

Cinderella tales for all ages
from around the world  

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      African  

Mufaro's beautiful daughters : an African tale
by John Steptoe
j Ef STEPTOE

    Arabian

“ The Little Red Fish and the Clog of Gold” in Arab folktales
translated and edited by Inea Bushnaq
398.2 B87a (adult library)

    Canadian

“Indian Cinderella” in Best-loved folktales of the world
selected and with an introduction by Joanna Cole
398.2 C64b (adult library)

    Caribbean

Cendrillon by Robert D. San Souci ~ j 398.2 CARIBBEAN San

    Chinese

Yeh Shen: a Cinderella story from China retold by Ai-Ling Louie ;
illustrated by Ed Young 
j Ef LOUIE Czechoslovakian

The twelve months by Rafe Martin ~ j Ef MARTIN

    Egyptian

The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo ~ j Ef CLIMO

    England/ British

“Ashipitel” & “The Broken Pitcher” &“The Little Cinder Girl”
in British folktales collected by Katharine Briggs
j 398.2 ENGLAND Bri

    European

Princess Furball by Charlotte Huck ~ j Ef HUCK

“The Cinder Maid” in European folk and fairy tales
restored and retold by Joseph Jacobs ~ j 398 Jac

    French

“Cinderella / The Little Glass Slipper”
in The Blue Fairy Book collected by Andrew Lang
j 398 Lan

Cinderella by C. S. Evans; illustrated by Arthur Rackham
j 398.2 FRANCE Eva

Cinderella adapted from Perrault's Cendrillon of 1697 by John Fowles ;
illustrated by Sheilah Beckett 
j 398.2 FRANCE Fow

The complete fairy tales of Charles Perrault illustrated by Sally Holmes ;
newly translated by Neil Philip 
j 398.2 FRANCE Per

Cinderella illustrated by K.Y. Craft ~ j Ef CRAFT

Toads and diamonds retold by Charlotte Huck ~ j Ef HUCK

Hilary Knight's Cinderella by Hilary Knight ~ j Ef KNIGHT

Cinderella; or, The little glass slipper
illustrated by Marcia Brown ~ j Ef PERRAULT

Cinderella by Charles Perrault
translated & illustrated by Diane Goode ~ j Ef PERRAULT

Cinderella; or, The little glass slipper
illustrated by Shirley Hughes ~ j Ef PERRAULT

Cinderella retold & illustrated by Ruth Sanderson
j Ef SANDERSON

    German

“Cinderella” in Favorite tales from Grimm illustrated by Mercer Mayer ;
text retold by Nancy Garden
j 398.2 GERMANY Gri

“Cinderella/Aschenputtel” in
The complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
translated by Jack Zipes ~ j 398.2 GERMANY Gri

    Indonesian

The gift of the crocodile by Judy Sierra ~ j Ef SIERRA

    Iranian

The Persian Cinderella by Shirley Climo ~ j Ef CLIMO

    Iraqi

The Golden Sandal by Rebecca Hickox ~ j Ef HICKOX

    Irish

Fair, Brown, & Trembling by Jude Daly ~ j Ef DALY

Billy Beg and his bull : an Irish tale
retold by Ellin Greene ~ j 398.2 IRELAND Gre

    Italian

“Grattula-Beddattula” & “Rosina in the Oven” in
Italian folktales selected and retold by Italo Calvino
398.2 C34i (adult library)

    Jewish

Raisel’s Riddle by Erica Silverman ~ j Ef SILVERMAN

The Way Meat Loves Salt by Nina Jaffe
 j 398.2 JEWISH Jaf

    Mexican

Adelita : a Mexican Cinderella story
written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola ~ j Ef DE PAOLA

Domitila : a Cinderella tale from the Mexican tradition
adapted by Jewell Reinhart Coburn ~ j 398.2 MEXICO Cob

    Native American

The Rough-Face Girl (Algonguin)
by Rafe Martin ~ j 398.2 UNITED STATES Mar

The Turkey Girl (Zuni) retold by Penny Pollock;
illustrated by Ed Young ~ 398.2 USA INDIAN Pol

    North American/ Hispanic

Little gold star : a Spanish American Cinderella tale
retold by Robert D. San Souci ~ j Ef SAN SOUCI

Little Gold Star : a Cinderella cuento = Estrellita de oro
retold in Spanish & English by Joe Hayes ~ j 468 Hay

    Portuguese

“The Hearth Cat” in One hundred favorite folktales
edited by Stith Thompson ~ j 398 Tho

    Russian

“The Wonderful Birch” in The red fairy book
collected by Andrew Lang ~ j 398 Lan

Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
as told by Marianna Mayer
j 398.2 RUSSIA May

Vasilisa the beautiful
translated by Thomas P. Whitney ~ j 398.2 RUSSIA Whi

Vasilissa the beautiful : a Russian folktale
adapted by Elizabeth Winthrop ~ j 398.2 RUSSIA Win

“The Golden Slipper” & “The Baba Yaga” in Russian fairy tales from the collections of Aleksandr Afanasev ; translated by Nobert Guterman ~ 398.45 A3r (adult library)

    Scandinavian

“ Katie Woodencloak” (Norway)
in East of the sun and west of the
moon and other tales collected by P. C. Asbjörnsen and Jörgen E. Moe ~
j 398.2 NORWAY Asb

“Liisa and the Prince” in Scandinavian folk & fairy tales : tales from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland
edited by Claire Booss ~ 398.2 B65s (adult library)

    Scottish

“Tattercoats” in Tattercoats, and other folk tales
by Winifred Finlay ; illustrated by Shirley Hughes
j 398.2 SCOTLAND Fin

    United States/American

“Ashpet” in Grandfather tales; American-English folk tales
by Richard Chase ~ j 398.2 UNITED STATES Cha

Ashpet : an Appalachian tale retold
by Joanne Compton ~ j Ef COMPTON

Moss gown by William H. Hooks ~ j Ef HOOKS

Bubba the cowboy prince : a fractured Texas tale
by Helen Ketteman ~ j Es KETTERMAN

Cindy Ellen: a wild western Cinderella
by Susan Lowell ~ j Ef LOWELL

Joe Cinders (Southwest) by Marianne Mitchell
j Es MITCHELL

The talking eggs : a folktale from the American South
retold by Robert D. San Souci ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney
j Ef SAN SOUCI

Smoky Mountain Rose (Appalachian)
by Alan Schroeder ~ j Ef SCHROEDER

    Vietnamese

In the Land of Small Dragon : a Vietnamese folktale
told by Dang Manh Kha to Ann Nolan Clark
j 398.2 VIETNAM Cla

“The Jeweled Slipper” in The beggar in the blanket & other
Vietnamese tales retold by Gail B. Graham
j 398.2 VIETNAM Gra

    Other Variations

Fanny’s Dream by Caralyn Buehner ~ j Ef BUEHNER

Who's afraid of the big bad book? by Lauren Child
 j Ea CHILD

Prince Cinders by Babette Cole ~ j Ef COLE

Disney's Cinderella : classic storybook
adapted by Michael Paxton ~ j Ef DISNEY

Dinorella : a prehistoric fairy tale
by Pamela Duncan Edwards ~ j Ew EDWARDS

Cinderella, the dog and her little glass slipper
by Diane Goode ~ j Ef GOODE

Ella's big chance : a Jazz-Age Cinderella written and illustrated by Shirley Hughes
~ j Ea HUGHES

Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson ~ j Ef JACKSON

Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella by Tony Johnston ~ j Ef JOHNSTON

Cinderhazel : the Cinderella of Halloween
by Deborah Nourse Lattimore ~ j Ef LATTIMORE

Cinderella's rat by Susan Meddaugh ~ j Ea MEDDAUGH

Cinder-elly by Frances Minters ~ j Ef MINTERS

Sidney Rella and the glass sneaker by Bernice Myers
j Ef MYERS

Cinderella Penguin or, The little glass flipper
retold and illustrated by Janet Perlman ~ j Ef PERLMAN

Cinderella's dress by Nancy Willard ~ j Ef WILLARD

Ugh by Arthur Yorinks ~ j Ea YORINKS

    In Collections
Collections of fairy tales may be found beginning at j 398.

Fairy tales told by Berlie Doherty ~ j 398 Doh

Cinderella collected by Judy Sierra ~ j 398 Sie

Princess stories : a classic illustrated edition
compiled by Cooper Edens ~ j 398.22 Ede

“Cinderella, or, The triumph of goodness” in
The Random House book of opera stories
retold by Adèle Geras ~ j 782.1 Ger

The Barefoot book of ballet stories
written by Jane Yolen ~ j 792.8 Yol

Roald Dahl's Revolting rhymes by Roald Dahl ~ j 821 Dah

    Older Fiction
(for children and young adults)

“The Fitting of the Slipper”
in A telling of the tales : five stories
by William J. Brooke ~ j SS BROOKE

“Cinder Elephant” by Jane Yolen in
A wolf at the door : and other retold fairy tales
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling ~ j SS DATLOW

The glass slipper by Eleanor Farjeon ~j FARJEON

Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix ~ j HADDIX

Cinderella 2000 by Mavis Jukes ~ j JUKES

Cinderellis and the Glass Hill
by Gail Carson Levine ~ j LEVINE

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine ~ j LEVINE

"Cinderelephant” in Leaping Beauty : and other animal fairy tales
by Gregory Maguire ~ j SS MAGUIRE

If the shoe fits by Jane B. Mason ~ j pb M

Silver woven in my hair
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy ~ j MURPHY

I was a rat! by Philip Pullman ~ j PULLMAN

Slender Ella and her Fairy Hogfather
by Vivian Sathre ~j SATHRE

If the shoe fits : voices from Cinderella by Laura Whipple
j 811 Whi (poetry)

Kissing the witch : old tales in new skins
by Emma Donoghue
YA (young adult library)

Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
YA NAPOLI (young adult library)

Don't bet on the prince : contemporary feminist fairy tales
in North America and England edited by Jack Zipes 
j 398.042 Zip P-T

    Videorecordings

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella ~ j DVD CINDERELLA

Prince Cinders ~ j DVD COLE

Cinderella (Walt Disney ) ~ j VC DISNEY

Cinderella (Faerie Tale Theatre) ~ j VC SHELLEY

The Tender tale of Cinderella Penguin and four other titles
j VC TENDER

Cinderella : a dance fantasy music by Sergei Prokofiev
 j VC 792.8

Ella enchanted ~ DVD ELLA

Ever after : a Cinderella story ~ VC E

    Sound Recordings
(Books on tape/ CD are also available
for some Cinderella stories.)

Tales of humor and wit
Recorded live at the National Storytelling Festival
“Cinderella” told by Ed Stivender ~ j AC TALES

Groundhogs meet Grimm by Megan Hicks
~ j CD HICKS (“Groundhog Godmother”)

CinderElmo ~ j CD Music SESAME

Cinderella : original television broadcast soundtrack music by Richard Rodgers
~ CD SHOW C

    Website
The Cinderella pages at The SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/index.html
 

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