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Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper

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The classic fairy tale of Cinderella with beautiful silhouette illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

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Published August 16, 2011

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Charles Perrault

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Charles Perrault was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, and whose best known tales, offered as if they were pre-existing folk tales, include: Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Bluebeard, Hop o' My Thumb), Diamonds and Toads, Patient Griselda, The Ridiculous Wishes...

Perrault's most famous stories are still in print today and have been made into operas, ballets (e.g., Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty), plays, musicals, and films, both live-action and animation.

The Brothers Grimm retold their own versions of some of Perrault's fairy tales.

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Profile Image for Hannah Greendale (Hello, Bookworm).
807 reviews4,204 followers
June 16, 2017
Cinderella lives with her cruel stepmother and stepsisters who force her to work as a servant doing menial housework. When the king's eligible son sends out invitations for a two-evening ball, Cinderella longs to go. She has nothing to wear but rags, until help arrives from an unexpected guest. With a little courage and a lot of magic, Cinderella may yet make it to the ball.

When [Cinderella] had done her work, the girl was in the habit of going into the chimney corner and sitting among the cinders. This resulted in her nickname, Cindertail, which was bestowed upon her by her elder stepsister and used by the full household.
The younger stepsister, though, who was not quite so rude as her sister, chose to call the girl Cinderella.


Cinderella

Unlike many classic fairy tales that only tout a protagonist's beauty, Cinderella is - refreshingly - disliked for her "qualities," a broad term that may encompass physical appearance and personality.

[Cinderella's stepmother] could not endure the young girl, whose good qualities made her own daughters appear even more detestable than they already were.

What makes this book special are the illustrations by artist Camille Rose Garcia. Her hyper-stylized depictions - with exaggerated wackiness rendered in alluring pastels with pops of red - are a stark contrast to the pale blues and soft edges of the popular 1950 animated film.

Stepsisters

Cinderella teaches the importance of kindness and forgiveness in this charming classic made more memorable by the inclusion of eccentric illustrations.
Profile Image for Sonja Rosa Lisa ♡  .
5,103 reviews638 followers
October 26, 2024
Aschenputtel war schon immer mein Lieblingsmärchen. Ich kann schon gar nicht mehr zählen, wie oft ich es schon gelesen, gehört und auch im TV gesehen habe in den verschiedensten Ausführungen. Und es wird auch nie langweilig.
So hat mir auch diese Ausgabe sehr gut gefallen und mich wieder ein bisschen träumen lassen. 💜
Profile Image for Mai.
436 reviews39 followers
November 8, 2025
Silly

I've always disliked this story — it’s incredibly shallow and illogical. I mean, you're looking for a woman through her glass slipper? Dude, you actually saw her, talked to her for two nights in a row!

And then there’s the stepfamily — tedious, cruel, and humiliating her every chance they got. But the moment they realized how prestigious her life was about to become, they threw themselves at her feet… and she just forgave them and welcomed them back? That’s not kindness — that’s unhealthy.

For a story that’s supposed to teach moral lessons, Cinderella delivers a rather twisted one: that patience in misery magically leads to reward, and that forgiveness comes at the cost of self-respect.
Profile Image for Leah Craig.
119 reviews77 followers
August 8, 2017
So obsessed with this artwork. I need to get my hands on the others she's done!
Profile Image for Suchona Hasnat.
251 reviews335 followers
August 22, 2021
Whenever we hear a story of a girl of low status with great virtue suddenly achieving reward with the link of missing slipper or shoe, no matter what is the protagonist called, or what her origin is, that story is a cinderella story.
We all know this story but the first written version is from 1697 by Charles Perrault. And though it has changed quite a lot from Disney adaptation and retellings, his one is still the most beautiful of them all.
The modern world has made this a story of a girl rescued by prince charming. But originally it was never about finding a prince or getting recognition. It is about this very patient and a good-natured girl who endured all the torture and inhuman behavior of her stepmother and stepsisters in silence. She never once complained and has been good all her life. And when the time came like any other girl of her age, she also wanted to dress up and visit places. So her fairy godmother fulfilled her wish. She didn't go to the ball hoping to impress anyone. Rather she went there to enjoy the life she was always deprived of. She didn't fell for him first, it was the prince who was desperately in love with her. She didn't see it as an escape, rather she came back home and went back to leading her life like always, it was the prince who kept searching for her with the lost slipper. Now, there is a part in the original story where it says Cinderella looked in the prince's eyes and saw what a great man she is. If anything she cared for the heart underneath :')
To me, it is a story of getting happiness for being good. She was never anything but helpful, patient, good-natured. So she was rewarded with love. :')
Now some bonus discussion. Why doesn't the slipper magically vanish after midnight? Cause in the original story dress, carriage, and everything else was made out of magic. But the glass slipper was actually a gift from fairy godmother to Cinderella. She brought it out of her bag and gave it to Cinderella. That's why it didn't vanish.
Profile Image for Melanie (TBR and Beyond).
527 reviews466 followers
March 12, 2017
I would give this one 3.5 stars. I didn't like it as much as Camilla Rose Garcia's illustrated works in Snow White. The artwork was still stunning but some of it didn't blow me away in the same way it did with her other works. This is Charles Perrault's version of Cinderella. I think this book would've worked so much better with the Grimm version of the fairytale for Camilla's style of artwork. I would have loved to have seen what Camilla would have done with something much darker.

Overall, this still breathes new life into a beloved fairytale.
Profile Image for Elisa H.
427 reviews18 followers
October 23, 2015
I love this editions with all my heart. The art is beautifully creepy, almost Tim Burton-sequel but more feminine I would say.
Profile Image for Filipa.
468 reviews83 followers
May 10, 2015
O que posso eu dizer deste menino??
Eu adoro a Disney e se tivesse que escolher um favorito há um ano, iria ser uma escolha muito muito difícil, no entanto, este ano, apercebi-me que não seria assim tão difícil.... Apercebi-me que o filme da Disney, série, livro que mais vezes tinha visto e lido, era mesmo a Cinderella.
Vi adaptações em manga, vi o filme da Disney, li recentemente o livro de Julia Quinn em que vai buscar resquícios dessa mesma história para contar outra de forma fantástica e pensei.... sim.
Cinderella é mesmo a minha história.

Então, não foi com surpresa que assim que descobri este livro, o quis ter na colecção e tinha que o ler logo.
O livro tem 80 páginas e.... está cheio de ilustrações.
Ou seja, se fosse para ler mesmo o livro, lia-se... em 10m.
Eu, li-o numa hora.
Perdi-me a olhar para o desenho de Camille Rose Garcia.
A ilustradora deste menino.
Já sou uma fã do trabalho dela.
Faz-me imenso lembrar o trabalho de Tim Burton que eu também comecei a gostar.

Então este livro está repleto de desenhos, muitas vezes ocupando duas páginas.
Está simplesmente fantástico e, claro, tem a minha história favorita.

A história... a história é a de uma rapariga que, após o pai casar novamente, se vê a braços com uma madrasta e umas irmãs crueis que, com inveja da sua humildade, da sua forma gentil e da sua beleza a relegam para segundo plano fazendo com que seja Cinderella a responsável por toda a limpeza da casa e não tendo direito a divertir-se indo a bailes como elas o fazem. Até que... chega uma fada madrinha e a leva a conhecer o princípe do reino.... Um conto de fadas... um conto de fadas...

É um livro mágico de todas as maneiras.
Há ainda mais dois livros com ilustrações de C.Garcia: Snow White e Alice's adventures in wonderland.
São mais dois bébés que em breve virão morar comigo.
Profile Image for Ebba.
237 reviews24 followers
June 29, 2015
Note: I read this in the Harper Design edition illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia

I had a really hard time deciding what to rate this. Because the story itself was probably worth a 1.5 or 2 stars because I didn't like it that much but the illustrations are definately worth 5 stars. So we'll go for 3 stars. This was not my favourite Cinderella story, I prefere the version by the brothers Grimm much more. It's a lot more darker and in my opinion, also more complex and interesting than this story. This story itself just.. sucks. Okay, I get the themes, I mean I have heard and watched this story a trillion times. But this was just not the version that I liked the most. However, Camille Rose Garcia is one of my favourite artists and the illustrations are absolutely stunning in this book! They give the story a whole different aspect and they are truly amazing. So I would say, it's worth reading or owning for the pitcures but not for the story.
Profile Image for kim song ng.
180 reviews22 followers
February 1, 2015
Love love love this. Beautiful artwork and illustrations. Camille Rose Garcia did it again! The colours were amazing throughout the entire book.
Profile Image for Tina.
101 reviews114 followers
February 26, 2015
Again, I'll probably give 5 stars to almost anything that has Camille Rose Garcia's name on it. This is another stunning edition!
Profile Image for Federico DN.
1,163 reviews4,394 followers
November 25, 2024
Great.

This was great, but not going to review it.

For the moment at least.

It’s public domain. You can find it HERE.

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PERSONAL NOTE :
[1700] [10p] [Children's] [3.5] [Highly Recommendable]
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★★★★☆ Perrault's Fairy Tales.

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Genial.

Esto fue genial, pero no voy a reseñarlo.

Al menos por ahora.

Es dominio público, lo pueden encontrar ACA.

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NOTA PERSONAL :
[1700] [10p] [Niños] [3.5] [Altamente Recomendable]
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Profile Image for E.Y.E.-D.
344 reviews39 followers
June 16, 2021
I purchased this book hoping to enjoy it as much as I did Snow White and Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia. Unfortunately I did not. I found the illustrations in this book to be a little off putting and not really matching the story.

If you are looking illustrated versions of classic, I would highly recommend choosing Snow White or Alice in Wonderland instead of this one.
Profile Image for midnightfaerie.
2,269 reviews130 followers
November 10, 2021
You know, seeing this next on my list of short stories didn't get me all that excited. After all, who hasn't seen, read, heard of Cinderella? But surprisingly, I found myself entranced by the story and I realize this is why it's so good. Even though you know what's coming, it's one that pulls you in and you can read over and over again. A true classic.
Profile Image for Wendy.
1,224 reviews13 followers
February 11, 2020
My star rating:

Cover: 4.5/5
Plot: 3.5/5
Pacing: 4/5
Characters: 3/5
World: 3/5
Romance: N/A
Art style: 4.5/5 - the art is pretty much the only reason I bought/read this book :)

Enjoyment level: 3.5/5 stars
Profile Image for My Bookish Delights.
889 reviews43 followers
July 8, 2021
I'm a big fan of this illustrator. This art style is not usually my cup of tea, but there's something about this particular artist's work that I'm just in love with. It's so whimsical and creepy and I adore it.

This is kind of a hard one to rate because there's the story and then there's the illustrations, which is what I bought the book for. This book is beautiful. The dust jacket, the naked book underneath, and the illustrations and layout of the story within the book. It's just gorgeous.

The story itself is kind of dull. I've read the Grimm's Fairy Tale version and it doesn't quite match up to this one. It's the bloody one. This one doesn't involve cutting off parts of feet to fit in tiny glass slippers, which the morbid part of me actually enjoys. I'm not that interested in the original fairy tales for this reason. The tales are usually more about morals than they are about character development, which is what I enjoy. It was interesting and a version that I haven't read before so that was good.

My rating is going to reflect the illustrations more than anything. I loved the layout of the story on the pages with illustrations and different fonts. It made it more enjoyable and whimsical. The colors used and the illustrations are what made this a book that I loved.

I'm not going to run this one through the CAWPILE rating system as I don't think it fits into those categories. I do recommend this book if you like the illustrations. I have all of this illustrator's books and this one goes perfectly with my collection.
249 reviews23 followers
November 21, 2018
Review for "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault:

It's one of the most popular fairy tales written by Charles Perrault along with "Snow White" and "Sleeping Beauty". The story follows a girl nicknamed "Cinderella" by her stepsisters who with the help of the Fairy Godmother manages to get to the ball and win the heart of the Prince. In the Brother Grimm's version, Cinderella's helpers are the doves. While in Mr. Perrault's version, there are pumpkins, a fairy godmother, mice, lizards and glass slippers, in Grimm's version there are doves, Cinderella meets them at her mother's grave and the girl's dresses and slippers are silver, diamond and gold. Both versions have different endings. In Perrault's Cinderella marries the Prince and the stepsisters marry two gentlemen from the royal court, in Grimm's version both the stepmother and stepsisters are punished severely.
Friendship, intelligence, kindness, good breeding, common sense, courage, the aid of God or godparents and inner beauty are the words to describe this fairy tale. Readers will also have to learn that there are times when one has to solve a problem by his or herself and that we can't always count on help from others. We can't lose hope no matter what the situation.
I recommend this fairy tale to readers 6+.
Profile Image for Oana.
128 reviews12 followers
June 24, 2017
The story itself is almost the same, the pictures are hauntingly beautiful the thing is...I expected more changes. My understanding was that this is a darker version of Cinderella but I found it to be the lightest of them all (compared to the Grimm's version at least). Only the drawings are truly captivating.

Also -the thing that made me really angry is that my edition is messed up. My book, which btw arrived in perfect condition, is missing 6 pages and the story itself is in shambles.
What I mean is that I have last pages in the middle of the book, I have pages that are appearing more than once in the book (not one after the other but throughout the story with no relevance to it whatsoever) ....missing pages..it's a mess. Basically after page 20 everything is chaos.
The missing content in itself is bad but the duplicates as well are disturbing and also the fact that the story line is really affected by the wrong order of the pages..
I've made a short video to reflect this for book depository since I've requested another copy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZiXW...

Am I the only one with this problem?
Profile Image for Scott.
695 reviews132 followers
December 24, 2017
Camille Rose Garcia could draw cows crapping on a field and I would buy prints of it for my wall. Her melding of the feminine and the grotesque made this just lovely to read. Her art and the design of the book itself work very well together, and although her collaborators aren't directly credited, they deserve mention.

The things that disappointed me were two:

1) She reused the same poses a number of times. I'd have liked to see the characters more given some different perspectives.

2) This version of the story doesn't involve the body mutilation we all know and love from Cinderella. It would have been amazing to see Garcia illustrate the stepsisters' cutting off parts of their feet and getting blinded by birds. And from a story perspective, these bitches deserve it. Instead they get rooms at the palace and monied husbands. Lame.
Profile Image for Cassandra Rose.
523 reviews60 followers
January 21, 2016
ORIGINALLY POSTED: http://bibliomantics.com/2015/12/31/m...

Illustrated by the super talented Rose Camille Garcia, the French version of Cinderella (Cendrillon) is not nearly as dark as the Brothers Grimm tale (Aschenputtel). While I would have loved to see how Garcia illustrated the fate of the stepsisters in the Grimm tale, she once again superbly brought a classic fairy tale to light in a modern way. Do The Little Mermaid next please!
Profile Image for Cecilia.
1,144 reviews73 followers
January 7, 2016
The story about Cinderella I knew before I started this book but it was not because of the story I read it. I read this book because of the illustrations! These both wonderful and creepy illustrations by Camille Rose Garcia - they are both scary and pretty at the same time and I love them for it!
Profile Image for Narmeen.
500 reviews42 followers
September 3, 2015
A GORGEOUS PICTURE BOOK. READ IT TO DROOL OVER THEM SKETCHES AND COLORS.

(Yes CAPLOCKS were necessary to show my enthusiastic admiration for this work)
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537 reviews88 followers
March 7, 2019
Such a beautiful book. If only I had a young child I could read this to.
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