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...
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Jan 22, 2012
L12_sarah
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"A chameleon changes color to match its surroundings. Stories do the same."
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella tells the story of Cinderella as seen through the eyes of various countries around the world. The author, Paul Fleischman, blends the different versions of this classic story into one seamless tale. In so doing, he unites the world through one story, creating not just a multicultural work, but a global one. Those who love the story of Cinderella will More...
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella tells the story of Cinderella as seen through the eyes of various countries around the world. The author, Paul Fleischman, blends the different versions of this classic story into one seamless tale. In so doing, he unites the world through one story, creating not just a multicultural work, but a global one. Those who love the story of Cinderella will More...
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Aug 28, 2011
Juliette
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I'm on the fence about this book. On one hand, I would definitely use it in my classroom in a multicultural unit to help introduce music from around the world. On the other hand I feel that the author had a great idea and really did as little as possible, and felt the illustrator could have done just a little better.
Story line: Average. Classic Cinderella story, but uses different elements of the story from other countries such as how Cinderella gets her outfit for the ball. It More...
Story line: Average. Classic Cinderella story, but uses different elements of the story from other countries such as how Cinderella gets her outfit for the ball. It More...
Dec 13, 2010
Erin
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I really enjoyed this mishmash of Cinderella type tales from around the world although it's definitely for older readers. Younger kids who aren't familiar with any of the more traditional versions of the story won't be able to follow it well, or understand that the author is incorporating different elements from different places. I really like the sort of faux-folk style illustrations, although I think that the amount of pattern can be overwhelming, even if the contrast on the colours is minim
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Oct 12, 2010
N_carlyl
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In my opinion, there is no better way to teach our students how alike yet different the many cultures of the world are, than by reading this story.
In this colorful tale, we read the story of a young girl who works hard to cook and clean and is treated unfairly by her stepmother and stepsisters. When the prince hosts a royal ball to find his queen, the young girl is forbidden to attend because her looks and clothing will cause her stepmother and sisters humiliation. The poor girl onl More...
In this colorful tale, we read the story of a young girl who works hard to cook and clean and is treated unfairly by her stepmother and stepsisters. When the prince hosts a royal ball to find his queen, the young girl is forbidden to attend because her looks and clothing will cause her stepmother and sisters humiliation. The poor girl onl More...
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Jul 28, 2010
Elfdart
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this is the cinderella story, but each section of the story is taken from a different telling of cinderella from around the world. the idea’s nice… but i don’t think it worked out. instead of it being the story of cinderella it was a book saying that more than one country had the cinderella story… which is nice, but i’d prefer to have each of those stories told to me instead of having them all smushed together not being true to any of the stories but just delivering the general message they all
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Jun 17, 2011
Charlynn
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In Paul Fleischman's Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal, the Cinderella archetype is explored across a plethora of cultures. While the idea of combining so many versions of the story emphasizes just how small the world is, Fleischman's book presents some continuity issues. For example, though the text does not state that the young woman needs to leave the party by a certain time, she flees anxiously when the rooster crows. Such discrepancies assume that the audience is aware of the Cinderella tale and
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Oct 20, 2009
Katy
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Writer Paul Fleischman, and illustrator Julie Paschkis tell the traditional Cinderella tale by incorporating elements from the same story as told in all different countries and regions. It starts out in Mexico where a little girl is given pan dulce by a woman who wants to marry her father. After she talks her father into marrying the woman the story moves to Korea where the new spouse orders the girl around, and to Iraq where she vows not to complain to her father because as she says, “I picked
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Feb 08, 2010
Jaclyn
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Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella, by Paul Fleischman, is a picture book intended for readers in preschool through grade three. I gave it four stars. In this tale, a beautiful young girl, “gentle-eyed and good-hearted,” laboriously works under the wrath of her evil stepmother. However, magical creatures adorn this young girl with beautiful clothing and transport her to the king’s ball, where she and the king ultimately fall in love and live as an “adoring couple in such a wo
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Feb 09, 2011
L11_Margaret
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Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal, A Worldwide Cinderella, by Paul Fleischman, is the clever retelling of the Cinderella story. In this rendition, the author has seamlessly woven the varied cultural elements of the many Cinderella stories that have been told around the world into one “worldwide” story. As the story unfolds, the reader is taken on an effortless journey around the world, experiencing the different flavors that each culture has given to this story throughout the centuries. The illustr
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Oct 13, 2009
(NS) - Heather
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In this Cinderella story retold by Paul Fleischman, the award winning author brings together a variety of cultures in one of the most famous fairy tales of all time. Almost every page is dedicated to a particular culture that comes from a different telling of Cinderella from different parts of the world. While the story does seem a little choppy at times as it tries to blend each story, the illustrations help bring it all together.
Even though I do not cover fairy tales as part o More...
Even though I do not cover fairy tales as part o More...
Oct 09, 2009
(NS) Lisa
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This is a unique presentation of the Cinderella story that incorporates elements from many different cultures into one story. The mean stepmother is first a nice widow who gives the Cinderella character various treats like "pan dulce and sugarcane. The daughter who is never named encourages her father to marry this nice woman but later she recalls her action and says, " I picked up the scorpion with my own hand", this insightful comment is part of the Iraqi Cinderella story. In a
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May 02, 2008
Sally
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I really enjoyed the text of this story: it incorporated aspects of versions of the Cinderella story from all over the world. Parts from Korea, Indonesia, the West Indies, Germany, Ireland, France, Russia....
The illustrations were also well-researched as to costume, color, etc. But I just didn't like them at all.... Personal preference.
The illustrations were also well-researched as to costume, color, etc. But I just didn't like them at all.... Personal preference.
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Mar 26, 2010
Q_Ayana
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A culturally-diverse, inter-mixed tale, Glass Slipper Gold Sandal keeps the well-known format of the Cinderella story intact, but weaves in the influences of cultures from around the world. Have not known any other version other than the traditional fairy tale, I enjoyed seeing how Cinderella is interpreted in other cultures. I would say that, as a reader who is very familiar to the “traditional” Cinderella tale, the switching line-by-line of different cultural influences began to get more and m
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Mar 07, 2010
Josiah
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Paul Fleischman brings an impressively innovative new angle to the story of Cinderella in this unique picture book. Incorporating various elements of all the Cinderella stories told in nations scattered across the globe, the fairy tale comes alive in a new way here, and with important multicultural appeal. Because of the alternating perspectives on the story from so many different countries, there are added bits and pieces that the reader likely has never heard before; as an example, Cinderella
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Feb 11, 2010
Ch_amyM
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Newbery Award-Winning author Paul Fleischman tells the "worldwide" version of Cinderella in Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal. Drawing on various versions of Cinderella from countries around the world, Fleischman weaves them all together to create a story in which various cultures, lifestyles and "Cinderellas" are portrayed. The illustrations and labeling help the reader to understand where that part of the story originated. "And on the girl's feet appeared a pair of glass slip
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Jun 28, 2011
Jill
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Illustrated by- Julie Paschkis
Published- New York : Holt, 2007.
ISBN- 0-8050-7953-X
Awards- Red Clover Nominee
Genre- Fairy Tale
This is a wonderful retelling of the Cinderella story that we all know and love. It incorporates the story from other cultures as well including Mexico, Indonesia and Iran to name a few. The story starts with a young girl and her loving father. The young girl wants her father to remarry the nice woman down the road who gives her More...
Published- New York : Holt, 2007.
ISBN- 0-8050-7953-X
Awards- Red Clover Nominee
Genre- Fairy Tale
This is a wonderful retelling of the Cinderella story that we all know and love. It incorporates the story from other cultures as well including Mexico, Indonesia and Iran to name a few. The story starts with a young girl and her loving father. The young girl wants her father to remarry the nice woman down the road who gives her More...
Sep 16, 2011
Heather
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A colorfully illustrated book that takes elements from Cinderella tales from around the world and combines them to make... a confusing read. It's a very cool concept and creates a sense of worldwide brotherhood and all that, but I found myself having to read sentences back over again a few times to really get what was going on since the settings and cultural trappings would change from paragraph to paragraph. The illustrator tries to signal this change by placing the appropriate text with its
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Mar 16, 2010
The many versions of Cinderella are combined into one enchanted version.
In this combination of Cinderella’s, the most obvious thing about it is the different cultures. It’s so interesting to see how each version does their own thing, but the plot is surprisingly very similar. At first I thought this combination would be incredibly confusing, since there are about 17 versions of the story compressed into one, but the illustrator did a really great job of indicating where each part o More...
In this combination of Cinderella’s, the most obvious thing about it is the different cultures. It’s so interesting to see how each version does their own thing, but the plot is surprisingly very similar. At first I thought this combination would be incredibly confusing, since there are about 17 versions of the story compressed into one, but the illustrator did a really great job of indicating where each part o More...
Aug 08, 2010
Nicole
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The story of Cinderella has over 1000 variations worldwide because of its universal theme of injustice and wrong-made-right. This retelling is an amalgamation of Cinderella stories from 17 different parts of the world. When Cinderella needs a dress for the ball she "...looked in her mother's sewing basket. Then she reached into the hole in the birch tree. Then a crocodile swam up to the surface--and in its mouth was a sarong made of gold... a cloak sewn of kingfisher feathers... a kimono
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Oct 13, 2009
(NS) Panagiota
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This 2010 Monarch award version of Cinderella goes around the world sharing the different retellings of this classic tale, which dates back to ninth-century China. Countries including Mexico, Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Iran, Iraq, Poland, Germany, Russia and France are represented. The premise of the story remains the same. A great book to use in the classroom to compare and contrast cultures and story lines as well as oral traditions. The illustrations in this book are alone worth checking i
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Jan 04, 2012
Laura
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This book begins with a picture of a mother reading to a child on her lap (next to a globe, significantly). It tells the basic Cinderella story, switching the cultural details from a variety of international versions from page to page. The illustrations on each page reflect the culture of origin and the framing illustrations sometimes contain images and motifs that extend the narrative of those versions beyond the brief snippet in the text. It does not do complete justice to any one version, but
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Feb 20, 2012
Mary Ann
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The Cinderella tale spans many millenia and countries: this illustrated version weaves the tale among 17 different countries, with rich illustrations that provide a lush, detailed backdrop for the familiar story. Cinderella's slippers include glass slippers from France, diamond anklets from India, and gold sandals from Iraq. The feast at Cinderella's eventual wedding includes rice seasoned with almonds from India, lamb stew from Ireland and anise cookies from Mexico. The vivid, hieroglyphic-styl
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Feb 08, 2011
Allison
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When I first picked up Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella, I questioned the book on how it could be worldwide in such few pages. Upon opening the book and viewing the layout, I could see the multiculturalism jumping off the pages. Through snapshot representations of various cultures, the story of Cinderella is pieced together, and truly is a Worldwide Cinderella. My favorite part of the book was the wedding pages, detailing a few cultures' customary celebratory foods, with a colo
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Jan 27, 2010
Kara
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GSGS is a Cinderella story woven with the most unusual details from the countless international versions (it's a very old, old, oft-told tale). A child reading it alone might be a little confused, but as a read-aloud it was breathtakingly effective. And the last few pages, where Cinderella marries her prince and the narrator tells us, "And that's why people are still telling the story today," make me a little misty. The power of these old stories is one of the reasons I love being a li
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Oct 12, 2009
Cami
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I can't recommend reading this to children...because it would bore them.
This is one of those rare children's books written for adults.
It takes the Cinderella story and weaves it's telling through the various countries where it is well-known folklore. The illustrations change, even the wording and details, depending on the country/region being shown.
I don't think my daughter (age 5) truly enjoyed it for what it was, though she liked the illustrations, which are brigh More...
This is one of those rare children's books written for adults.
It takes the Cinderella story and weaves it's telling through the various countries where it is well-known folklore. The illustrations change, even the wording and details, depending on the country/region being shown.
I don't think my daughter (age 5) truly enjoyed it for what it was, though she liked the illustrations, which are brigh More...
Feb 09, 2010
Ch_jank-caporale
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Paul Fleischman has taken various cultural versions of the Cinderella tale and merged them into one story. What's more, Julie Paschkis, who illustrated the book, has melded the artwork and motifs of various cultures onto the page as each version is introduced. The story works. There is continuity to the story line even though seemingly disparate elements, unfamiliar to the traditional Perault tale, are used to tell the story. If introduced at the end of a study of different cultural tellings, i
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Apr 06, 2010
Genre: traditional literature
Number of Pages: 32
Grade Level or Age: 4-8 years
Themes:
good vs. evil, different cultures
Summary:
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal tells the tale of Cinderella in a very unique way. Paul Fleischman intertwines the many similar tales from across the world while maintaining the qualities most young American readers know and love.
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Number of Pages: 32
Grade Level or Age: 4-8 years
Themes:
good vs. evil, different cultures
Summary:
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal tells the tale of Cinderella in a very unique way. Paul Fleischman intertwines the many similar tales from across the world while maintaining the qualities most young American readers know and love.
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I love this version of Cinderella! You can More...
Sep 13, 2009
Cheryl
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Fleischman retells the traditional Cinderella tale incorporating versions of the story from seventeen different countries. One of the highlights of this picture book are the illustrations which change to represent the culture from which that version of the story comes. You have to read this book to appreciate the cleverness with which all of the versions are combined to tell the best Cinderella story ever.
Traditional; 2007; Picture Book; Notable Social Studies Trade Book, Notable Boo More...
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May 31, 2011
Cheryl
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Did you know that the Cinderella story originated in China in the 9th century? The story has been passed to many countries and has been altered somewhat to fit each culture. Over 1,000 versions exist today! In this beautifully illustrated book, many of these versions (from Ireland, Japan, Iraq, India, Zimbabwe, Poland , France, Germany and more) have been interwoven to present a unique version of Cinderella! It’s a fascinating retelling which exposes children to a rich multicultural fairytale
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Jul 25, 2008
Julie
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This is probably the best Cinderella story I have read. The story is made up from a collection of Cinderella stories from around the world. Each page is a line from a Cinderella story from a different country. The lines that are included are from Mexico, Korea, Iraq, India, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Germany, Appalachia, Laos, Russia, Indonesia, China, Japan, France, India, West Indies, Poland, and Iran. The illustrations are beautiful and on each page the illustrations reflect the culture and count
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