Product Description This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Customer Reviews:
cute and a good readAugust 11, 2010 Constance Rux(West Michigan) i thought this was a very cute version of the story and well worth the read as it is short as well. it has a moral like every good fairytale and is light enough that you could read it to your kids. it is a little sappy but i think that adds to this versions charm.
great classic fairy taleOctober 25, 2009 Jennifer L. Swan(Corpus Christi, TX USA) 1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a classic. I read it before when i was a child and it was such a joy to read it again.
Preachy re-telling of Cinderella story is nauseatingJuly 24, 2009 D. Summerfield(Missoula, Montana) 27 out of 27 found this review helpful
Granted this is a freebie on your Kindle, but this version of the Cinderella story is so interwoven with preachy moral lessons as to be almost comical -- kind of like a bad Saturday Night Live sketch. It's not really worth your time.
This blanded-down version of the Cinderella tale is based upon what is generally-agreed upon as the definitive "first" Cinderella, which is by a French author named Charles Perrault, printed in 1697. What is added here is a bunch of "lessons" which children should learn by the story. For example, when Cinderella is late leaving the ball, thus necessitating her walking home in rags, the author tells his readers: "[This] is an everlasting lesson to all the pretty little Cinderellas in the world to keep their word, and to act in good faith by such as befriend them."
The best Cinderella for my money is still the Brothers Grimm version, first printed in 1812 and revised in 1819, where Cinderella's evil step-sisters end up cutting off their own toes with a knife to try and force their feet into the glass slipper, and for good measure have their eyes pecked out by birds in the end. Gotta love those blood-thirsty Grimm Brothers. In this sugary version, Cinderella is so good that she gags you, and the step-sisters have no come-uppance at all.
You can find both the original Perrault version of Cinderella, and the darker Brothers Grimm version, on the Internet for free. I would recommend that you not waste your time with this version, unless it's for the laugh factor of all the stupid moralizing.
Classic Fairy TaleMarch 16, 2009 Eileen T(Los Angeles, CA USA) 13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Everybody knows the Cinderella story. Most of us probably also seen the movie. But I have never read the original version. I really enjoy reading the classic fairy tale in its original context. Only wish illustrations can be seen in the kindle version, too.
