The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition
10 best books like The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition (Nina Jaffe): Sootface, Moss Gown, The Persian Cinderella, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, The Water Of Life: A Tale From The Brothers Grimm, The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story, Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella, Prince Cinders, The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece, Cinderella: An Art Deco Love Story
| Author | Robert D. San Souci |
Once, an Ojibwa man whose wife had died raised three daughters alone. The two older girls were lazy and bad-tempered, and made their youngest sister do all the work. When the flames from the cooking fire singed her hair or burned her skin, they laughed and called her Sootface.
While...
| Author | William H. Hooks |
| ISBN | 0395547938 |
As noted on the dust-jacket blurb, elements of
King Lear
and
Cinderella
meet in this Southern folktale, which was told to William H. Hooks as a child in North Carolina. When Candace's elderly and infirm father asks each of his daughters to describe how she loves him, her answer - that she loves him...
| 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...
| 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...
| Author | Jacob Grimm |
| ISBN | 0823409074 |
Now, I have read many stories from the Brothers Grimm and I had enjoyed every single one of them! So, imagine my surprise when I finally came upon one of the Brothers Grimm’s stories being put into a singular children’s book called “The Water of Life” retold by Barbara Rogasky along with...
| 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 | 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 | Babette Cole |
| ISBN | 0698115546 |
In this delightful retelling of the classic fairy tale, Prince Cinders sets out on an adventure, aided by his very own fairy godmother.
Great for ages 4 and up.
"Take a classic story, substitute a few ingredients, season freely with silliness and imagination, dress it all up in jaunty...
| Author | Anthony Manna |
| ISBN | 0375866914 |
Once upon a time in Greece, fate left a young girl an orphan. Her stepmother was so hateful that she counted every drop of water the orphan drank! But with the help of Nature's blessings, the orphan was showered with gifts: brilliance from the Sun, beauty from the Moon, gracefulness from the Dawn—and...
| 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...
| Author | Eric A. Kimmel |
| ISBN | 0823418774 |
“Three Samurai Cats” is an ancient Japanese folktale about how three samurai cats come to the Daimyo’s castle to defeat a savage rat with the last samurai cat giving the rat a taste of his own medicine. Eric A. Kimmel’s hilarious retelling and Mordicai Gerstein’s colorful drawings...
Once upon a time in Turkey there lived a funny, little wise man named Nasrettin Hoca. He wore a huge, white turban and a worn-out coat made of patches upon patches. Riding about on his little gray donkey, he liked to help whomever he could. A friend to all, Nasrettin is a popular figure. But when he is suddenly...
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...
