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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 ...
The Jargon File records the book's nickname, Cinderella Book, thusly: "So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope."
July 7, 2020. Pages. 400. 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.
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 ...
French. Cinderella is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures ' animated film of the same name released in 1950. In the film, Cinderella is voiced by American singer and actress Ilene Woods. For the sequels and subsequent film and television appearances, Woods was replaced by actresses Jennifer Hale and Tami Tappan, who ...
Freepik (stylized as FREEP!K) is an image bank and stock image platform. Freepik offers photographs, illustrations, and vector images. The platform distributes its content under a freemium model. [ 1 ] Freepik was founded in 2010 in Málaga, Spain, [ 2 ] to provide free graphic resources to designers. It is used by several million users ...
Book design. Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "though largely forgotten today, [relies upon] methods and rules upon which it is impossible ...
Book cover. Front cover of the St Cuthbert Gospel, c. 700; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding. A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction between hardcovers and paperbacks, there are further alternatives and additions, such as ...