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Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt (oral) [ 1 ] Italy (literary) [ 1 ] Region. Eurasia. " Cinderella ", [ a ] or " The Little Glass Slipper ", is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The protagonist is a young girl living in forsaken circumstances who is suddenly blessed by remarkable fortune, with ...
United States. Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper is a book adapted and illustrated by Marcia Brown. Released by Charles Scribner's Sons, the book is a retelling of the story of Cinderella as written by Charles Perrault, and was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1955. [1] The book takes place in France, in a palace ...
Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier (niece) Charles Perrault (/ pɛˈroʊ / peh-ROH, US also / pəˈroʊ / pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published ...
Marcia Joan Brown (July 13, 1918 – April 28, 2015) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. [1] She won three annual Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association, six Caldecott Medal honors as an illustrator, recognizing the year's best U.S. picture book illustration, [2] and the ALA's Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1992 for her career contribution to ...
ISBN. 978-1-547-60387-9. Cinderella is Dead is a 2020 young adult book by Kalynn Bayron. The novel is focused on Sophia Grimmins, a queer teenager living in the same world as Cinderella, 200 years after her death. Young women that are coming of age are forced to attend balls to be chosen as wives of men they've never met.
Hans Christian Andersen Centre. Hans Christian Andersen (/ ˈændərsən / AN-dər-sən; Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɑnɐsn̩] ⓘ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Joanne Rowling(/ˈroʊlɪŋ/ ⓘROH-ling;[1]born 31 July 1965), known by her pen nameJ. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She is the author of Harry Potter, a seven-volume fantasynovel series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translatedinto 84 languages, and spawned a global media ...
The Brothers Grimm (German: die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German academics who together collected and published folklore. The brothers are among the best-known storytellers of folktales, popularizing stories such as " Cinderella " (" Aschenputtel"), " The Frog Prince " (" Der ...