Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
A Worldwide Cinderella
ISBN10: 080507953X
ISBN13: 9780805079531
Hardcover
32 Pages
$19.99
CA$26.99
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Once upon a time, in Mexico . . . in Ireland . . . in Zimbabwe . . . there lived a girl who worked all day in the rice fields . . . then spent the night by the hearth, sleeping among the cinders.
Her name is Ashpet, Sootface, Cendrillon . . . Cinderella. Her story has been passed down the centuries and across continents. Now Paul Fleischman and Julie Paschkis craft its many versions into one hymn to the rich variety and the enduring constants of our cultures.
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Praise for Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
"Endings don't get any happier than in this global tour de force."—School Library Journal, starred review