Cinderella Resources
Internet Resources
The Cinderella Project. A text and image archive of a dozen English-language versions of Cinderella published between 1729 and 1912. The texts used come from the collections of the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Information about Judy Sierra's book, Cinderella (cited below), including a sample chapter ("Allerleirauh, or the Many-furred Creature") is available through the Oryx Press Home Page.
The variants Tattercoats, Cap o'Rushes, and The Princess and the Golden Shoes from the Tales of Wonder site.
The Twelve Months, a Slav Legend by Alexander Chodzko, adapted by Frances Olcott Jenkins. This version originally published in Good Stories for Great Holidays (1914). Web Version from the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center.
Teaching ideas by Jean Rusting:
A sound clip from the "enlightened" version of Cinderella, according to Politically Correct Bedtime Stories.
Reference Books
Cinderella (The Oryx Multicultural Folktales Series), by Judy Sierra.
Oryx Press, 1992. (24 Cinderella stories from a wide range of cultures)
Cinderella,
a Folklore Casebook, edited by Alan Dundes. Garland Publishing, 1982.
Reprinted by University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
The
Cinderella Story, by Neil Philip. Penguin Books, 1989. (Penguin Folklore
Library.)
Cinderella:
Three Hundred and Forty-Five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap
o'Rushes, by Marian Roalfe Cox, with an introduction by Andrew Lang
(1893). Kraus Reprint, 1967
Eight
Cinderellas, by Nancy Polette (Book Lures).
Fantasy
Literature in the Classroom, by Monica R. Edinger. Scholastic, 1995
The
Multicultural Cinderella, by J.D. Rusting. Rusting Educational Services
(4523 Elinora Ave., Oakland, CA, 94619), 1994 with updates.
The
Storyteller's Sourcebook: A Subject, Title, and Motif Index to Folklore
Collections for Children, by Margaret Read MacDonald. Neal-Schuman,
1982.
The
Uses of Enchantment: the Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, by Bruno
Bettelheim. Knopf, 1976.
Articles
Melinda L. Franklin, "Ellen at the Ball: Ellen Foster as a Cinderella Tale." ALAN Review, vol. 23, no. 1 (Fall 1995), pp. 16-17.
John Gough, "Rivalry, Rejection, and Recovery," Children's Literature in Education, vol. 21. no. 2 (June 1990) pp 99-107. (How the story has influenced modern writers)
Jane Yolen's "America's Cinderella" is in Children's Literature in Education, vol. 8 no. 1 (1977) pp 21 -29. (also in Alan Dundes' Cinderella, a Folklore Casebook)
Picture Books and Full-Length Versions
Abadeha,
the Philippine Cinderella, by Myrna J. de la Paz. Los Angeles: Pazific
Queen, 1991
Ashpet:
an Appalachian Tale, retold by Joanne Compton, illustrated by Kenn
Compton. Holiday House, 1994.
Baba
Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, as told by Marianna Mayer, illustrated by
K. Y. Craft. Morrow Junior Books, 1994. (Russian)
Billy
Beg and his Bull: an Irish Tale, retold by Ellin Greene, illustrated by
Kimberly Bulcken Root. Holiday House, 1994.
Boots
and the Glass Mountain, by Claire Martin. Dial Books, 1992. (Norway)
Chinye:
a West African Folk Tale, retold by Obi Onyefulu; illustrated by Evie
Safarewicz, 1994.
Cinder
Edna, by Ellen Jackson, illustrated by Kevin O'Malley. Lothrop, 1994.
Cinder-Elly,
by Frances Minters, illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Viking, 1994. (Rap
version)
Cinderella,
adapted from Perrault's Cendrillon by John Fowles; illustrated by
Sheilah Beckett. Little Brown, 1974.
Cinderella,
or, The Little Glass Slipper,a free translation from the French of
Chales Perrault, illustrated by Marcia Brown. Scribner, 1954 (Caldecott
medal winner)
Cinderella,
retold by David Delamare. Simon & Schuster, 1993. (Illustrations are
Venetian inspired. The prince is named Fidelio)
Cinderella,
illustrated by Paul Galdone. McGraw-Hill, 1978.
Cinderella,
retold from The Brothers Grimm and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian.
Greenwillow Books, 1981.
Cinderella,
retold by Amy Ehrlich; illustrated by Susan Jeffers. Dial Books for Young
Readers, 1985. (From the Charles Perrault version)
Cinderella,
illustrated by Roberto Innocenti. Creative Education, 1983. (From the
Charles Perrault version; illustrations set in the 1920's)
Cinderella,
by Barbara Karlin; illustrated by James Marshall. Little Brown, 1989.
Cinderella,
illustrated by Moira Kemp, 1981.
Cinderella,
or, The Little Glass Slipper, illustrated by Errol Le Cain. Bradbury
Press, 1972. (Charles Perrault)
Cinderella:
from the Opera by Rossini, written and illustrated by Beni Montresor.
Knopf, 1965.
Cinderella,
retold by C.S. Evans; illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Knopf, 1993.
(Originally published in 1919 by Heinemann)
Cinderella,
translated by Anne Rogers (from the Grimm version), illustrated by Otto
Svend. Larousse, 1978.
Cinderella,
by William Wegman, with Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman Hyperion, 1993.
(Told with photos of costumed Weimaraners)
Cinderella
Penguin, or, The Little Glass Flipper, by Janet Perlman, 1992.
The
Cinderella Rebus Book, Ann Morris, 1989.
Cinderella's
Stepsister, and, Cinderella: the Untold Story, as told by Russell Shorto,
illustrated by T. Lewis. Carol Pub. Group, 1990. (A standard version
back-to-back with a version by the "evil" stepsister)
The
Egyptian Cinderella, by Shirley Climo, illustrated by Ruth Heller.
HarperCollins, 1989.
Ellen
Foster by Kaye Gibbons. Vintage Contemporaries, 1987. (See Melinda
Franklin's article)
The
Enchanted Anklet: A Cinderella Story from India translated and adapted
by Lila Mehta, illustrated by Neela Chhaniara. Toronto: Lilmur, 1985.
The
Glass Slipper, by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon, illustrated by Hugh
Stevenson. Wingate, 1946. (A novel-length version)
The
Golden Slipper: a Vietnamese Legend, by Darrell Lum, illustrated by
Makiko Nagano. Troll, 1994.
In
the Land of Small Dragon: A Vietnamese Folktale, told by Dang Manh Kha
to Ann Nolan Clark, illustrated by Tony Chen. Viking Press, 1979.
Kao
and the Golden Fish: a Folktale from Thailand, as remembered by Wilai
Punpattanakul-Crouch retold by Cheryl Hamada, illustrated by Monica Liu.
Chidren's Press, 1993.
Korean
Cinderella, story edited by Edward B. Adams, illustrations by Dong Ho
Choi. Seoul International Tourist Pub. Co., 1983.
The
Korean Cinderella, by Shirley Climo, 1993.
Lily
and the Wooden Bowl, Alan Schroeder, illustrated by Yoriko Ito.
Doubleday, 1994. (Japan)
Little
Firefly: an Algonquin Legend, written and adapted by Terri Cohlene,
illustrated by Charles Reasoner. Rourke Corp., 1990.
Moss
Gown, by William D. Hooks, illustrated by Donald Carrick. Clarion Books,
1987. (Southern U.S.)
Mufaro's
Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale, by John Steptoe. Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard, 1987. (Zimbabwe)
Nomi
and the Magic Fish: a Story from Africa, by Phumla, illustrated by
Carole Byard. Doubleday, 1972. (Zulu)
Prince
Cinders, by Babette Cole, 1987.
Princess
Furball, by Charlotte Huck; illustrated by Anita Lobel. Scholastic,
1989.
Queen
of the May, by Steven Kroll, illustrated by Patience Brewster. Holiday
House, 1993
The
Rough-Face Girl, by Rafe Martin, illustrated by David Shannon. Putnam,
1992. (Algonquin Indian)
Sidney
Rella and the Glass Sneaker, by Bernice Myers. Macmillan, 1985.
Silver
Woven in My Hair, by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Atheneum, 1977.
(Novel-length)
Sootface:
an Ojibwa Cinderella Story, retold by Robert D. San Souci, illustrated
by Daniel San Souci. Doubleday Book for Young Readers, 1994.
The
Starlight Cloak, retold by Jenny Nimmo, pictures by Justin Todd. Dial
Book for Young Readers, 1993.
The
Talking Eggs: a Folktale from the American South, by Robert San Souci;
illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1989.
Tam
Cam: The Vietnamese Cinderella Story by The Goi.
Tattercoats,
retold by Margaret Greaves, illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain. Clarkson N.
Potter, 1990.
Tattercoats,
edited by Joseph Jacobs; illustrated by Margot Tomes. Putnam, 1989.
Tattercoats:
an Old English Tale, by Flora Annie Steel; illustrated by Diane Goode.
Bradbury Press, 1976.
The
Turkey Girl: a Zuni Cinderella, retold by Penny Pollock; illustrated by
Ed Young. Little, Brown, 1995.
Vasalisa
and her Magic Doll, adapted and illustrated by Rita Grauer. Philomel
Books, 1994. (Russia)
Vasilisa
the Beautiful, translated from the Russian by Thomas Whitney;
illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian. Macmillan, 1970.
Vasilissa
the Beautiful: A Russian Folktale, adapted by Elizabeth Winthrop,
illustrated by Alexander Koskkin. HarperCollins, 1991.
When
the Nightingale Sings, by Joyce Carol Thomas. HarperCollins, 1992.
(Novel-length)
Wishbones:
A Folktale from China, retold by Barbara Ker Wilson; illustrated by
Meilo So. Bradbury, 1993.
Yeh-Shen,
a Cinderella Tale from China, by Ai-Ling Louie; illustrated by Ed Young.
Philomel Books, 1982.
Versions in Collections
This is only a small sampling of the versions of the tale that are available in folktale collections. Variants of many of the versions listed above can also be found in anthologies."And
Then the Prince Knelt Down and Tried to Put the Glass Slipper on
Cinderella's Foot," Judith Viorst in Don't Bet on the Prince:
Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England by Jack
Zipes. Routledge, 1987.
"Ashputtel"
in Grimm's Fairy Tales. Penguin Books, 1948.
"Ashpet,"
in Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales, edited by Richard
Chase, illustrated by Berkeley Williams. Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
"The
Brocaded Slipper," in The Brocaded Slipper, and Other Vietnamese Tales,
by Lynnette Dyer Vuong, illustrations by Vo-Dinh Mai. Lippincott, 1982.
"Cap
o' Rushes," in Clever Gretchen, and Other Forgotten Folktales by
Alison Lurie, illustrated by Margot Tomes. Crowell, 1980.
"Cinderella,"
in Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Bantam Books, 1983.
"Cinderella,"
in Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner.
Macmillan, 1994.
"Cinderella,"
in The Candlewick Book of Fairy Tales, retold by Sarah Hayes,
illustrated by P. J. Lynch. Candlewick Press, 1993.
"Cinderella,"
in The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Tales from Grimm,
translated by Naomi Lewis, paintings by Lidia Postma. Dial Books, 1986.
"Cinderella
and the Glass Slipper," from Told Again (also published as Tales
Told Again), by Walter De la Mare.
"Cinderella,
or, The Little Glass Slipper," in The Blue Fairy Book, collected by
Andrew Lang, revised edition edited by Brian Alderson, illustrated by John
Lawrence. Penguin Books, 1987.
"Cindy
Ellie," by Mary Carter Smith, in Best-Loved Stories Told at the National
Storytelling Festival, and in Talk that Talk: an Anthology of
African-American Storytelling, edited by Linda Goss and Marian E.
Barnes. Simon & Schuster, 1989.
"The
Fitting of the Slipper," in A Telling of the Tales: Five Stories by
William J. Brooke, drawings by Richard Egielski. Harper & Collins, 1989.
"The
Jewelled Slipper," in The Beggar in the Blanket and Other Vietnamese
Tales, retold by Gail B. Graham, illustrated by Brigitte Bryan. Dial
Press, 1970.
"Little
Burnt Face," in The Red Indian Fairy Book, by Frances Jenkins Olcot,
1917, and in Time for Old Magic, compiled by May Hill Arbuthnot and
Mark Taylor, illustrated by John Averill and others. Scott, Foresman, 1970.
"The
Magic Orange Tree," in The Magic Orange Tree, and Other Haitian Folktales,
collected and told by Diane Wolkstein, illustrated by Elsa Henriquez. Knopf,
1978.
"The
Princess on the Glass Hill," in The Blue Fairy Book, collected by
Andrew Lang, revised edition edited by Brian Alderson, illustrated by John
Lawrence. Penguin Books, 1987. (Cinderlad, Norway)
Tattercoats,
and Other Folk Tales, by Winnifred Finlay
"Twelve
Months," in Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Czechoslovakia by Virginia
Haviland. Little, Brown, 1966.
"Vasilisa
the Beautiful" in Stories From Old Russia, by Edward W. Dolch and
Marguerite P. Dolch, 1964.
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