Giles, Jenny

Cinderella / Retold by Jenny Giles Illustrated by Margaret Power - First published in 1999 - Victoria : Cengage Learning Australia, 1999 - 31 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Perrault's tale is the best-known of all the Cinderella-type stories and was published in 1697. Iona and Peter Opie ('The Classic Fairytales' Oxford University Press, 1974) describe hundreds of tellings in many languages, including a thousand-year-old Chinese version with remarkable parallels to the current telling in earlier centuries, a girl's only choice of moving from rags to riches was by making a fortunate marriage. 'Cinderella,' the all-time favourite fairytale, epitomises this romantic dream. Set in any small European princedom, circa 19th century.

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