The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece
10 best books like The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece (Anthony Manna): Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa, The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas, The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story, Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale, The Irish Cinderlad, Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella, The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition, Cinderella, Bubba, The Cowboy Prince, Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella
| Author | Gerald McDermott |
| ISBN | 0152999671 |
Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him what he wants. Is he clever enough to do as Sky God asks? “The tale moves along with the swift concision of a good joke, right down to its satisfying punch...
| Author | Tony Wilson |
| ISBN | 1407111450 |
After tiring of the needs of overly demanding princesses, Prince Henrik devises a test to find a girl who s not so sensitive, using a very thin mattress and an entire packet of frozen peas. His dream girl shows up unexpectedly in the form of his old friend Pippa, who is all too happy to pitch a tent or play a...
| 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...
| 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...
| Author | Shirley Climo |
| ISBN | 0064435776 |
Ever since he was a baby, Becan's only worry has been his big feet - until his widowed father remarries. His new stepmother and her three daughters feed him crusts of bread and banish him to work in the fields. So Becan runs away.
With the help of his only friend, a magical bull, he defeats a giant, slays...
| Author | Tony Johnston |
| ISBN | 0698118715 |
I thought that this story was a very cute, fractured, retelling of Cinderella. Just the fact of this story featuring sasquatches was hilarious to me. I thought that it was cute that the prince had a challenge for all of the female sasquatches (to knock the prince into the water from off of a rolling log)...
| 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...
| Author | Barbara McClintock |
| ISBN | 0439561450 |
In her most charming book yet, three-time New York Times Best Illustrator Barbara McClintock has created the Cinderella that every little girl will want to savor -- over and over again.
Poor Cinderella, who is relegated to a dingy garret room by her duplicitous stepmother and beleaguered...
| Author | Helen Ketteman |
| ISBN | 0590255061 |
Bubba is bossed around the family ranch by his wicked step-daddy and his nasty stepbrothers, Dwayne and Milton. Bubba never complains, though. He's a real cowboy - tough as leather (and cute as a cow's ear).
When Miz Lurleen, the purtiest rancher in Texas, decides to throw a ball to find herself...
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...
| 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...
| 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,...
| 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...
The Turkey Girl : a Zuni Cinderella story
| Author | Penny Pollock |
| ISBN | 0316713147 |
I CANNOT take this book seriously.
As a Native American version, there is this element of quiet, dignified, solemnity inherent in the story. So as I'm reading this to my kids, I sort of blew the mood when the otherwise normal farmyard turkeys unexpectedly started talking:
'Willingly,...
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
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 night by the hearth, sleeping among the cinders.
Her name is Ashpet, Sootface, Cendrillon . . . Cinderella. Her story has been passed down the centuries and across...
Jack and the Baked Beanstalk
| Author | Colin Stimpson |
| ISBN | 0763655635 |
"Fee-fi-fo-fummy, I'm always counting money!"
Jack and his mom run a little café, but business has dried up and they're nearly broke. So when Jack comes home with only an old can of baked beans in return for their last few pennies, his mother throws it out the window. Overnight it grows into...
Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
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...
