Cinderella Stories from Around the World
Suggestions from Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
www.mtlebanonlibrary.org
Cinderella tales from around the world. For all ages.
Titles beside ♦ are shelved in the picture book section.
Titles by country
Other variations
For older readers
Videorecordings
Sound Recordings
Websites
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♦Mufaro's beautiful daughters : an African tale
by John Steptoe - j Ef STEPTOE
Arabia
“ The Little Red Fish and the Clog of Gold” in Arab folktales
translated and edited by Inea Bushnaq - 398.2 B87a (adult library)
Canada
“Indian Cinderella” in Best-loved folktales of the world
selected and with an introduction by Joanna Cole - 398.2 C64b (adult library)
Caribbean
Cendrillon by Robert D. San Souci - j 398.2 CARIBBEAN San
China
♦Yeh Shen: a Cinderella story from China
retold by Ai-Ling Louie ; illustrated by Ed Young - j Ef LOUIE
Czechoslovakia
♦The twelve months by Rafe Martin - j Ef MARTIN
Egypt
♦The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo - j Ef CLIMO
Britain
“Ashipitel” & “The Broken Pitcher” &“The Little Cinder Girl”
in British folktales collected by Katharine Briggs - j 398.2 ENGLAND Bri
Europe
♦Princess Furball by Charlotte Huck - j Ef HUCK
“The Cinder Maid” in European folk and fairy tales
restored and retold by Joseph Jacobs - j 398 Jac
France
“Cinderella / The Little Glass Slipper”
in The Blue Fairy Book collected by Andrew Lang - j 398 Lan
Cinderella by C. S. Evans; illustrated by Arthur Rackham - j 398.2 FRANCE Eva
Cinderella adapted from Perrault's Cendrillon of 1697
by John Fowles; illustrated by Sheilah Beckett - j 398.2 FRANCE Fow
The complete fairy tales of Charles Perrault
illustrated by Sally Holmes; newly translated by Neil Philip - j 398.2 FRANCE Per
♦Cinderella illustrated by K.Y. Craft - j Ef CRAFT
♦Toads and diamonds retold by Charlotte Huck - j Ef HUCK
♦Hilary Knight's Cinderella by Hilary Knight - j Ef KNIGHT
♦Cinderella; or, The little glass slipper
illustrated by Marcia Brown - j Ef PERRAULT
♦Cinderella
by Charles Perrault translated & illustrated by Diane Goode - j Ef PERRAULT
♦Cinderella; or, The little glass slipper
illustrated by Shirley Hughes - j Ef PERRAULT
♦Cinderella retold & illustrated by Ruth Sanderson - j Ef SANDERSON
Germany
“Cinderella” in Favorite tales from Grimm
illustrated by Mercer Mayer; text retold by Nancy Garden - j 398.2 GERMANY Gri
“Cinderella/Aschenputtel” in The complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
translated by Jack Zipes - j 398.2 GERMANY Gri
Indonesia
♦The gift of the crocodile by Judy Sierra - j Ef SIERRA
Iran
♦The Persian Cinderella by Shirley Climo - j Ef CLIMO
Iraq
♦The Golden Sandal by Rebecca Hickox - j Ef HICKOX
Ireland
♦Fair, Brown, & Trembling by Jude Daly - j Ef DALY
Billy Beg and his bull : an Irish tale retold by Ellin Greene - j 398.2 IRELAND Gre
Italy
“Grattula-Beddattula” & “Rosina in the Oven”
in Italian folktales selected and retold by Italo Calvino
398.2 C34i (adult library)
Jewish
♦Raisel’s Riddle by Erica Silverman - j Ef SILVERMAN
The Way Meat Loves Salt by Nina Jaffe - j 398.2 JEWISH Jaf
Mexico
♦Adelita : a Mexican Cinderella story
written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola - j Ef DE PAOLA
Domitila : a Cinderella tale from the Mexican tradition
adapted by Jewell Reinhart Coburn - j 398.2 MEXICO Cob
Native American
The Rough-Face Girl (Algonguin) by Rafe Martin - j 398.2 UNITED STATES Mar
The Turkey Girl (Zuni)
retold by Penny Pollock; illustrated by Ed Young - 398.2 USA INDIAN Pol
North American/ Hispanic
♦Little gold star : a Spanish American Cinderella tale
retold by Robert D. San Souci - j Ef SAN SOUCI
Little Gold Star : a Cinderella cuento = Estrellita de oro
retold in Spanish & English by Joe Hayes - j 468 Hay
Portugal
“The Hearth Cat” in One hundred favorite folktales
edited by Stith Thompson - j 398 Tho
Russia
“The Wonderful Birch” in The red fairy book
collected by Andrew Lang - j 398 Lan
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
as told by Marianna Mayer - j 398.2 RUSSIA May
Vasilisa the beautiful translated by Thomas P. Whitney - j 398.2 RUSSIA Whi
Vasilissa the beautiful : a Russian folktale
adapted by Elizabeth Winthrop - j 398.2 RUSSIA Win
“The Golden Slipper” & “The Baba Yaga” in Russian fairy tales
from the collections of Aleksandr Afanasev ; translated by Nobert Guterman
- 398.45 A3r (adult library)
Scandinavia
“ Katie Woodencloak” (Norway)
in East of the sun and west of the
moon and other tales collected by P. C. Asbjörnsen and Jörgen E. Moe
- j 398.2 NORWAY Asb
“Liisa and the Prince”
in Scandinavian folk & fairy tales : tales from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland edited by Claire Booss 398.2 B65s (adult library)
Scotland
“Tattercoats” in Tattercoats, and other folk tales
by Winifred Finlay; illustrated by Shirley Hughes - j 398.2 SCOTLAND Fin
United States
“Ashpet” in Grandfather tales; American-English folk tales
by Richard Chase - j 398.2 UNITED STATES Cha
♦Ashpet : an Appalachian tale retold by Joanne Compton - j Ef COMPTON
♦Moss gown by William H. Hooks - j Ef HOOKS
♦Bubba the cowboy prince : a fractured Texas tale
by Helen Ketteman - j Es KETTERMAN
♦Cindy Ellen: a wild western Cinderella by Susan Lowell - j Ef LOWELL
♦Joe Cinders (Southwest) by Marianne Mitchell - j Es MITCHELL
♦The talking eggs : a folktale from the American South
retold by Robert D. San Souci ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney - j Ef SAN SOUCI
♦Smoky Mountain Rose (Appalachian) by Alan Schroeder - j Ef SCHROEDER
Vietnam
In the Land of Small Dragon : a Vietnamese folktale
told by Dang Manh Kha to Ann Nolan Clark - j 398.2 VIETNAM Cla
“The Jeweled Slipper” in The beggar in the blanket & other
Vietnamese tales retold by Gail B. Graham - j 398.2 VIETNAM Gra
♦Previously / Allan Ahlberg
The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. Includes Goldilocks, Jack and the beanstalk, Jack and Jill, the frog prince, Cinderella, and the gingerbread man. - j Ea AHLBERG
♦Chickerella / Mary Jane and Herm Auch
This barnyard version of the Cinderella story features a mild-mannered chicken, a fashion-conscious Fairy Goosemother, and a prince at a Fowl Ball. - j Ea AUCH
♦Fanny’s Dream by Caralyn Buehner - j Ef BUEHNER
♦Who's afraid of the big bad book? by Lauren Child - j Ea CHILD
♦Prince Cinders by Babette Cole - j Ef COLE
♦Disney's Cinderella : classic storybook
adapted by Michael Paxton - j Ef DISNEY
♦Dinorella : a prehistoric fairy tale by Pamela Duncan Edwards - j Ew EDWARDS
♦Glass slipper, gold sandal : a worldwide Cinderella / Paul Fleischman The author draws from a variety of folk traditions to put together this version of Cinderella, including elements from Mexico, Iran, Korea, Russia, Appalachia, and more. - j Ea FLEISCHMAN
♦Cinderella, the dog and her little glass slipper by Diane Goode - j Ef GOODE
♦Ella's big chance : a Jazz-Age Cinderella
written and illustrated by Shirley Hughes - j Ea HUGHES
♦Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson - j Ef JACKSON
♦Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella by Tony Johnston - j Ef JOHNSTON
♦Cinderhazel : the Cinderella of Halloween
by Deborah Nourse Lattimore - j Ef LATTIMORE
♦Cinderella's rat by Susan Meddaugh - j Ea MEDDAUGH
♦Cinder-elly by Frances Minters - j Ef MINTERS
♦Sidney Rella and the glass sneaker by Bernice Myers - j Ef MYERS
♦Cinderella Penguin or, The little glass flipper
retold and illustrated by Janet Perlman - j Ef PERLMAN
♦Cinderella's dress by Nancy Willard - j Ef WILLARD
♦Ugh by Arthur Yorinks - j Ea YORINKS
In Collections
Collections of fairy tales may be found beginning at j 398.
Fairy tales told by Berlie Doherty - j 398 Doh
Cinderella collected by Judy Sierra - j 398 Sie
Princess stories : a classic illustrated edition
compiled by Cooper Edens - j 398.22 Ede
“Cinderella, or, The triumph of goodness”
in The Random House book of opera stories
retold by Adèle Geras - j 782.1 Ger
The Barefoot book of ballet stories written by Jane Yolen - j 792.8 Yol
Roald Dahl's Revolting rhymes by Roald Dahl - j 821 Dah
Older Fiction - for children in grades 5 and up and young adults
“The Fitting of the Slipper” in A telling of the tales : five stories
by William J. Brooke - j SS BROOKE
“Cinder Elephant” by Jane Yolen
in A wolf at the door : and other retold fairy tales
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling - j SS DATLOW
"The Cinderella game" by Kelly Link in Troll's eye view : a book of villainous tales / edited by Ellen Datlow - j DATLOW
Cinderella (as if you didn't already know the story) / by Barbara Ensor
In this updated version of the Cinderella story, Cinderella writes letters to her dead mother apologizing for not being more assertive, which she remedies soon after marrying the prince. - j ENSOR
The glass slipper by Eleanor Farjeon - j FARJEON
Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix - j HADDIX
Cinderella 2000 by Mavis Jukes - j JUKES
Cinderellis and the Glass Hill by Gail Carson Levine - j LEVINE
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine - j LEVINE
"Cinderelephant” in Leaping Beauty : and other animal fairy tales
by Gregory Maguire - j SS MAGUIRE
If the shoe fits by Jane B. Mason - j pb M
Silver woven in my hair by Shirley Rousseau Murphy - j MURPHY
Geek chic : the Zoey zone / Margie Palatini
A contemporary Cinderella story about Zoey, 10, who desperately needs a fairy godmother to give her a makeover and teach her about style if she is ever going to make it into the cool crowd in the lunchroom. - j PALATINI
I was a rat! by Philip Pullman - j PULLMAN
Slender Ella and her Fairy Hogfather by Vivian Sathre - j SATHRE
If the shoe fits : voices from Cinderella
by Laura Whipple - j 811 Whi (poetry)
Kissing the witch : old tales in new skins by Emma Donoghue
YA (young adult library)
Bound by Donna Jo Napoli - YA NAPOLI (young adult library)
Don't bet on the prince : contemporary feminist fairy tales in North America and England edited by Jack Zipes - j 398.042 Zip P-T
Ashpet : an American Cinderella - j DVD ASHPET
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella - j DVD CINDERELLA
Prince Cinders - j DVD COLE
Cinderella (Walt Disney ) - j VC DISNEY
Cinderella (Faerie Tale Theatre) - j VC SHELLEY
The Tender tale of Cinderella Penguin and four other titles - j VC TENDER
Cinderella : a dance fantasy music by Sergei Prokofiev - j VC 792.8
Ella enchanted - DVD ELLA
Enchanted - DVD ENCHANTED
Ever after : a Cinderella story - VC E
Sound Recordings
(Books on tape/ CD are also available for some Cinderella stories.)
Tales of humor and wit Recorded live at the National Storytelling Festival
“Cinderella” told by Ed Stivender - j AC TALES
Groundhogs meet Grimm by Megan Hicks
- j CD HICKS (“Groundhog Godmother”)
CinderElmo - j CD Music SESAME
Cinderella : original television broadcast soundtrack music
by Richard Rodgers - CD SHOW C
More classics with a twist / the Storycrafters - j CD STORYCRAFTERS
The Cinderella pages at The SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/index.html
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There are also many classic versions of the Cinderella story available at the library. Please ask a librarian for more help.
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