Cinderella

I'm sure I have seen the name [a:Barbara McClintock 60633 Barbara McClintock http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1263502199p2/60633.jpg] as a recommendation to read before. Then when I opened this picture book to see this was based on the Perrault version of the story Cinderella I was enchanted as I know that is a version on my list for future years with fairy tales. I was enchanted by this book. While the story is so much more meaty than I have ever heard told I feel like I was missing this from my childhood knowledge of the story. Now I'm intrigued to wonder what else is out there that I do not know. While the Cinderella that I know was left with a miserable stepmother and stepsisters after her father died, in this story he is there but completely controlled by the stepmother. Apparently not cursed or anything, just silent and unseen. That makes me curious, but then he could have been a spineless push-over I assume. The whole moral of this one is kept and that was always gone from my childhood versions. Cinderella knows to be kind to all, because it is the right thing to do and I cannot even fathom how her kindness in the end might have won over even the most cruel and critical of her associations. I'll have to shop for this one, as it was a library find grasped by the interesting spine and cover illustrations. Oh and on that note, what interesting illustrations they were. Oh! and that reminds me there is so much more history found within this retelling including the robe and dress of the time period (estimated) and the fact of a ball lasting more than one day. Very delighted in this find, no wonder it is an award winner. posted: http://creativemadnessmama.com/blog/2012/12/20/cinderella-by-barbara-mcclintock/