Moss Gown

10 best books like Moss Gown (William H. Hooks): Cupid and Psyche, Hilary Knight's Cinderella, The Persian Cinderella, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story, Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale, The Magic Nesting Doll, The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur, The Girl Who Spun Gold, Melisande

Cupid and Psyche

Author	M. Charlotte Craft
ISBN	0688131638

Psyche is the most beautiful woman in the world, yet the oracle at Delphi foresees she will fall in love with a creature feared even by the gods themselves.

Magically, Psyche finds herself in a magnificent castle fitted with sweet music, attentive servants, and a charming but invisible host....

Hilary Knight's Cinderella

Author	Hilary Knight
ISBN	0375814221

Hilary Knight imbues the story of Cinderella with characters of the same humor, zest, and personality that have made generations of children and grown-ups fall in love with his most famous creation: Eloise. A pair of pet cats, a blue fairy godmother, and an endearing, if somewhat overweight, Prince...

The Persian Cinderella

Author	Shirley Climo
ISBN	0064438538

"A luminescent interpretation. Meticulously researched illustrations faithfully depict the ornate beauty of an ancient land" (Kirkus Reviews).

In this jewel-like version of a classic story, popular folklorist Shirley Climo tells the tale of Settareh, the Persian Cinderella.

Magic...

Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave

Author	Marianna Mayer
ISBN	0688085008

Sweet, lovely Vasilisa lives with her jealous stepmother and stepsisters on the edge of a dark forest inhabited by the evil witch Baba Yaga. One night the stepmother sends Vasilisa to visit Baba Yaga, an errand from which the gentle girl has little chance of returning alive. "An engaging text and accomplished...

The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story

Author	Rebecca Hickox Ayres
ISBN	0823415139

Poor Maha! Her jealous stepmother makes her do all the housework while her selfish stepsister lazes about.

Since Maha's father is away fishing most of the time, there is no one to help or comfort her. All that begins to change when Maha finds a magical red fish. In return for sparing his life, the...

Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale

Author	Robert D. San Souci
ISBN	0688147801

Blessed Mary rewards Teresa's good deeds with a shining gold star. Later she punishes Teresa's unkind stepsisters, Isabel and Inez, with hideous horns and donkey's ears that they try to hide under heavy veils! But will Teresa outshine her stepsisters at the festival? Robert D. San Souci retells this...

The Magic Nesting Doll

Author	Jacqueline K. Ogburn
ISBN	0803724144

Katya's grandmother took a little matryoshka, a nesting doll, out of a small box. "If your need is great, open the doll and help will come. But you may only do so three times. After that the magic will be gone." A wicked spell has changed a handsome young prince to a pale glassy figure made of "living ice,"...

The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur

Author

Margaret Hodges

Well, I have modern sensibilities and could never get into Arthurian lore. But I loved Saint George and the Dragon by this team, and so I had to try this. Very glad I did. Not dumbed-down for kids, not updated for feminists, it is what it is. And it does set up the scene, tone, atmosphere, values... well enough...

The Girl Who Spun Gold

Author	Virginia Hamilton
ISBN	0590473786

Please note that this review of Virginia Hamilton's exquisite The Girl Who Spun Gold is going to be a bit different in set-up and scope, in so far that I am mostly posting general musings about both The Girl Who Spun Gold and also concerning Rumpestilzchen types of folk and fairy tales in global lore and...

Melisande

Author	E. Nesbit
ISBN	0763607177

This delightful "modern" fairy tale describes the trials of a royal family beset with too many traditions from "historical" fairy tales. Borrowing themes from Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Melisande is a tale of traditional fairytale and mathematical logic. Unexpected things happen to characters...

The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition

Author	Nina Jaffe
ISBN	0805043845

Many years ago in Poland, there lived a rabbi who had a wife and three daughters. One day, the rabbi asks his children a powerful question: "How much do you love me?" His older daughters profess their love in gold and diamonds, but his youngest daughter, Mireleh, declares she loves her father the way meat...

The Serpent Slayer: And Other Stories of Strong Women

Author	Katrin Hyman Tchana
ISBN	0316387010

I've just read this quickly before sending it to my niece. I'm disappointed that the prose doesn't sparkle. Tchana is a pedestrian stylist and there are certainly better-written folktales. But the content is fabulous. The 'princesses' are bright, curious, patient, physically courageous, thoughtful,...

Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella

Author	Shirley Hughes
ISBN	0689873999

The classic story of Cinderella gains even more charm in this glamorous retelling by world-famous picture book writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes.
Ella Cinders loves helping her father in his dress shop and laughing with her friend Buttons, the store's delivery boy. Then comes the terrible...

The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty the Beast Tale

Author	Laurence Yep
ISBN	0064435180

When a poor farmer falls into the clutches of a dragon, only Seven, his youngest daughter, will save him—by marrying the beast.
Publishers Weekly praised "Yep's elegant, carefully crafted storytelling" and Mak's "skillfully and radiantly rendered illustrations" in this captivating and...

Princess Furball

Author	Charlotte Huck
ISBN	0688131077

Once upon a time a cruel King decided to betroth his motherless daughter to an Ogre in exchange for fifty wagons filled with silver. When the Princess learns what her father has done, she is horrified. But she is as clever as she is beautiful. Quickly, the Princess devises a plan to escape and, relying on...

Cinderella: An Art Deco Love Story

Author	Lynn Roberts-Maloney
ISBN	0810941686

Cinderella, An Art Deco Love Story, by Lynn Roberts is a retelling of the Cinderella story in the 1920-30 Art Deco time period. In this version of the fairytale, Cinderella’s father is a “quite forgetful and could not see anything at all without his glasses.” As a result, he returns home two weeks...

Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella

Author	Alan Schroeder
ISBN	0140566732

I reckon ye heard o' Cinderella, but lemme tell you a story 'bout a sweet li'l thing named Rose? Set in the Appalachian Mountains and told in a lilting dialect that just begs to be read aloud, this is a unique and lively adaptation of the traditional Cinderella story. Complete with an enchanting protagonist,...

Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella

Author	Jewell Reinhart Coburn
ISBN	1885008015

Ten ethnic versions of Cinderella story from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Middle East are summarized and worked into lessons for the middle and upper grades. Each story is accompanied by a Booktalk for review, a Motifs & Ideas for discussion, a Connection to a subject area, and a Vocabulary...

The Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story

Author	Judy Sierra
ISBN	0689821883

In the Spice Islands, where clove and nutmeg trees grow,
a girl named Damura lived long ago.
Damura is a beautiful girl, as kind and lovely as the little green parrot that perches on the nutmeg tree. But Damura's stepmother and stepsister mistreat her. They force her to rise before dawn, carry...

Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story

Author	Tomie dePaola
ISBN	0142401870

Hace mucho tiempo?a long time ago?there lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kind-hearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in love with beautiful Adelita, but...

Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China

Author

Ai-Ling Louie

I have read many different interpretations of the classic “Cinderella” story. But imagine my delight when I find out that there was a “Cinderella” story that comes from China called “Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China,” which was retold by Ai-Ling Louie along with illustrations...