Cinderella

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Aleksey Ivanov

This beautifully imagined adaptation of the Brothers Grimm classic fairy tale is brought to life with Ulrike Haseloffs soft, colorful illustrations. Several pages have been finished with soft sparkles giving the book a magical feel.

Genres: Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Childrens, Short Stories, Picture Books

32 pages, Board Book

Published August 30, 2007

About the author

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).

Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.

This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .

Adapted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Nayra.Hassan · Rating 3 out of 5]

في تخيلاتك الطفولية عن حذاء سندريلا 👠هل تخيلته مليئا بالدماء؟ لان الاختين قطعا أصابع اقدامهما و كعوبهما ليصبح على المقاس

اقسم ان الأخوين جريم هم رواد الرعب بلا منازع
سندريلا :قصة رعب سادية رهيبة من الطراز الاول..من أعنف قصص الأطفال بعد هانسل و جريتل
يكفي ان ترجمتها العربية "المشحرة"..اي المغطاة بالرماد ..التي تقيم مع زوج والدتها المتوفاة و هذا يفسر تجاهله المستمر لما يحدث لها .؟

هنا لن تجد الساحرة الطيبة
لا توجد قرعة🎃 تتحول لحنطور
و لا فئران🐁 يتحولون لخيول
و الحذاء ذهبي و ليس زجاجي و التصق بالقطران😕
بل لا وجود لسندريلا الصبورة المتسامحة..التي تحولت لرمز انثوى ابدي للترقي الاجتماعي عن طريق الزواج
اما طيورها المسحورة التي تسكن شجرة البندق🌳 فكانت تمتلك روح انتقامية جديرة بالغربان

حقا سيظل الاخوين جريم لغزا لن احله ابدا بحكايتهم المفجعة لما قبل نوم اطفال مطلع القرن 19اكثر من مائتي قصة تشعرك بسذاجة امنا الغولة و ابو رجل مسلوخة. . و تحطم كل ما حاولت ديزني بعدها زرعه في عقولنا لعقود . . هؤلاء الأخوين جريم يمنحون القصص الخيالية رونق عقابي جدير بادب السجون و التعذيب..
مع سؤال اجباري😢
هل كان لابد من اخافة الأطفال حتى الموت لكي يناموا زمان؟

[Carlos De Eguiluz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hermoso, con palomas que pican ojos y dejan ciegas a las personas malvadas por su falsedad y envidia.

Córtate los dedos, córtate un pedazo del talón, pues cuando seas reina, no irás nunca a pie... WTF?

[Maha. ALyazedi · Rating 3 out of 5]

يوجد فيها لمسة اختلاف عن القصة المتعارف عنها
أما عن الأطفال في هذا الزمن و خاصة مع مسلسلات مثل كونان
فهذه القصة عندهم -حتى و إن أحتوت على قطع أصبع أو كعب- عادية

[Daina Chakma · Rating 1 out of 5]

Never let your lil daughter read this book ever.

[Elliot A · Rating 5 out of 5]

Part of BBC’s “100 Stories that shaped the World” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.
In the summer of 2009 I took a classic children’s literature course, probably the worst course I have ever taken in university. My prof was in charge for both the online version of this course and the in-class version, so in true nature of her lazy personality she used the twice-weekly lecture time, which I had to suffer through, to tell us about her amazing life and her amazing husband, who does all the chores for her so that she could sit on her butt and read all day, thinking because she has such a life everyone else has as well and demanding we read a 500-page novel in week. Furthermore, instead of using the lecture time to discuss important themes in the evolution of children’s literature, she would go through the course website’s table of contents and point out that all she wants to talk about is actually all online and we can read it at home, wasting over an hour twice weekly of her student’s time. To say the least, I was thoroughly annoyed at ever having paid money for such nonsense.
Anyway, one of the stories we were expected to read was Cinderella. Up until that point I had only ever watched Disney’s version and was quite shocked at the differences between the two. Looking back I can truthfully say that I appreciate the written story much more for its greater storytelling and depth of meaning.
Overall, I feel this story is a must for anyone, who grew up watching the Disney versions of classic children’s fairy tales.

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[Greta is Erikasbuddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cinderella is one of my most favorite fairy tales EVAH!!

Yes... See... I do have a feminine side!!



I love the mice and the horses and the glass slipper and the fairy god mother....

and you know what?

I just read the original and none of that is in there lolz.



Dad is still in the story.
The step-mom does bargain with Cinderella
but it's a game to see if she can pick lentils out of the ash.
Cinderella actually gets birds to do this for her.
And more birds help her out with a dress.

THEN! This is cool.... It's not a glass slipper but a gold slipper that she loses on the steps and that's because the prince covered them with tar and it got stuck.



When the prince goes looking for the girl he goes and not a footman. The one step sister cuts off a toe to get the slipper on and the prince takes her. But theses birds rat her out.
Then the other step sister cuts off her heal and the prince takes her. But these birds rat her out.



Then Dad says those are the only girls in the house but there's a kitchen wench his first wife left.

What the hell? That's his own kid he's calling a kitchen wench! I totes couldn't believe that.

But the prince wants to see her and the slipper fits and he recognizes her. He takes her to the castle and the birds who ratted out the step sisters perch on her shoulders.

So, when they go to church after the wedding, Cinderella's step sisters want to get in her good graces and sit on each side of her where a bird is perched on Cinderella's shoulders... and the birds peck their eyes out!! HAHAHS! OMG! Awesome!

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

First book of Cramathon!

Cinderella is always nice, but I have realized that this tale is more brutal than the movie was. Since it is a Disney movie, I can see why none of the blood is mentioned. This made me laugh a few times though, and I liked that!

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story is interesting, especially since Cinderella gets revenge even though she doesn't even care about it. That is an alluring theme.

After Cinderella's mother dies, her father marries another woman, and the woman and her daughters, which become Cinderella's step sisters, are sadistic assholes. Mostly, the father is nowhere to be seen. Eventually, he apparently stop caring about Cinderella. He only has eyes for his new wife.

When the King is having a festival, all beautiful girls in the area are invited for the prince to choose from. How they decide who is beautiful enough is a mystery, but they seem to know who are invited and who are not.

The story makes an effort to seem to value good people, being good even if other people are not, and that something wonderful can happen to anyone, even without money. If you are beautiful enough, that is. Cinderella doesn't need to use her wit or personality much. Her beauty is exceeding her step sisters and she has smaller feet, something that seems to have been very ideal at the time. So, the prince decides to marry her. I don't think Cinderella's own thoughts and feelings are revealed, apart from the fact that she wants to see him. Presumably, she is in love, and the story is more beautiful that way, but the most probable scenario is that the prince offers a way out of the house. In the story, it doesn't really seem to matter what she feels. Furthermore, the prince values her because of her looks. Being a good person seems not to be that important, after all. The story is beautiful because she is a good person, and, as often with fairy tales, I pretend that he appreciates and love her personality.

[Sidharth Vardhan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't knew Cinderella got her name from 'Cinder' (she used to sleep on a bed of ashes)

[Wilma Monica · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 didnt see the ending coming. Darker than the Disney and it made me shocked..

[Georgiana-Laura Gheorghe · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 while 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+.

[Noelle Strait · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although enjoyable, this short story was often confusing. Some of the language was unclear, and despite re-reading it, I did not find any more clarity. For example, each time Cinderella escapes from the ball, the prince calls to "the father" to help him find her. It is unclear who this man is and why he wonders each time if the missing girl is Cinderella.
This story was full of repetition. Certain passages were often repeated over and over throughout the text. It gave the feel of a poem or a song, which helped transition from scene to scene and kept the story flowing. As is iconic to the Grimm brothers, Cinderella has a happy ending, but those who mistreated her did not.
It was interesting to see the origins of the well-known, modern tale, but I was not overly impressed with the story. Granted the language is both old and translated, there were many instances where I felt lost and confused after reading a passage. It definitely distracted from the story and my ability to enjoy it.

[Edward · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Cinderella they don't want you to know about!

This is the famous Cinderella fairytale where her stepsisters cut off their toe and heel, and ends where the sisters get their eyes peck out by doves during Cinderella's wedding.

This is the most savage tale that the Grimm Brothers ever wrote.
This is really not a fairytale recommended to be read as a moral lesson to live by, but certainty a uquie experiment out their 200 fairytales. Most of the Grimms fairytales don't contain this common graphical content; if anything, their most mess up fairytale tales are only dark and twisted stuff but never graphical.

[Vaishali · Rating 5 out of 5]

Folks, this is the original tale, titled "Ashputtel" (German for "the ashy one"). The story is better than the Disney version, albeit bloodier. No fairy godmother, no glass slipper, and no pumpkin coach. Instead, the soul of Ashputtel’s deceased mother - now fused with Mother Nature - saves the day.

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok I have read this story before, 2 different authors and neither of them came close to the Brother's Grimm in my opinion. One, there is no fairy-godmother in this story, just some simple unexplained magic and to me, that is far better then pumpkins, mice, and bippity-boppity-boo.

[marta · Rating 3 out of 5]

First book for the InLoveAThon.
-Read an original fairytale
-Read a book with a prince/princess

[Kalina ☆ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bardzo lubię ta bajkę<3

[Ruponti · Rating 2 out of 5]

My whole life was a lie! There is no fairy god mother 🫠

[Pardis TD · Rating 1 out of 5]

The original Cinderella, is actually by Andersen, however, and it inspired the Grimm brothers, as he likely was younger therefore had a strong imagination, although he probably was inspired by a real story. As it later became a psychiatric complex (victim-playing), as people who commit the most crimes have a Cinderella complex, which is a form of limbo between codependency and narcissism, it's hard to leave a positive review. The story is really sad, and it's about abusive relationships, but instead of meditating on them, and on how to create win-win situations, it turns into an ego wish for revenge, devoid of any empathy, by that it's clear it is unrealistic and not objectively representing the truth about the situation that Cinderella finds herself in; at the same time, it could have been a great political essay about the time period of discontent that led romantic writers writing some fairy tales to mock or criticize, but there isn't much on that aspect in the book. The ending is happy but unrealistic, as it teaches about a cycle of abuse that abusers engage in, in the form of the prince. He actually has the personality of a batterer and engages in dv, in the book, only the first stage is described, but that's told about as if it were a "romance". Unfortunately, many modern-day criminal psychopaths are known for providing a Cinderella-like story to justify their crimes, and often those stories are stolen from their victims' experiences (whom they likely stalked before offending), therefore it's a controversial tale in my opinion, that has been made popular by criminals, seeking to make "an impact on society" (that impact was to get away with crimes and blame their actions on some "outside force", just like Cinderella blames everything on her stepmother). As such, it is hard to blame it on the authors, they like Nietzsche or Darwin, never imagined such a thing could have happened to their story, and didn't predict the misuse of their story, written perhaps innocently or as a criticism to a time of political discontent.

[Cole Hoffman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This story starts off with the mother of Cinderella on her death bed. She tells Cinderella to always be good and pious and that she will always be looking after her. The next morning the mother dies and Cinderella spends as much time at her mothers grave as possible mourning over her loss. Her father however seems to get over the death of his wife quickly and remarries the following spring. Cinderella is then left with two cruel step sisters and a dreadful step mother. They make her work in the kitchen and wear ugly clothes. She obeys, but weeps at her mothers grave and it is there where she finds a bird that watches over her. Following that Cinderella finds out that her step mother and sisters were invited to the King's three day royal ball, but she was not invited. She pleaded to go but the step mother would not allow it and kept giving her meaningless chores to do instead. Cinderella than calls to the bird to shower her in gold and silver. The bird brings her a beautiful dress each day for the ball and Cinderella ends up stealing the heart of the King's son. However she cannot reveal herself to him in fear of her step mother and sisters finding out, so she sneaks away at the end of every night to make it home before her step family does. But on the third day of the ball, she left one of her shoes behind and the determined prince sends an order to try find out who the shoe fits.

Grimm's Cinderella is my favorite version of Cinderella. In this story the characters are mostly believable and I like how he made the step daughters karma come back to blind them. Also when Cinderella was talking to the birds I enjoyed the rhyming scheme.

[Josiah Traeger · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this as an audiobook. Cinderella by the Grimm Brothers is a fantasy story that is intended for young children ages 4-7 years old. Cinderella is a story about a girl with an evil stepmother and two evil stepsisters who are greedy. Cinderella goes to a ball and meets the prince of her kingdom but he doesn’t know who she is and the prince searches his kingdom to find her. I gave this book a five-star rating because I think this version of the Cinderella story is very unique in its portrayal and is very detailed. The characters in this story were very effective. The stepmother has her daughters cut off parts of their foot to try and fit into the shoe for the prince. This really showed how greedy they were for the prince’s riches. The plot in this book was effective. In this version of the Cinderella story the ending is a lot more dark compared to others because of the stepsisters’ actions to get what they want but also when Cinderella fits into the shoe the stepsister’s get their eyes pecked out by birds. I think that this book would be appealing to some children but not so most because of the gore toward the end. I think children could be scared of the cutting off of a toe or a heel.

[Jeremy Zavala · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Cinderella" by the grimm brothers is the story we all know from our childhoods just with a few weird choices. You still have Cinderella being abused by the step sisters and mother but this time with the added element of her having a father. He doesn't add anything just know she has an alive dad. Cinderella is helped by birds in this story and they guide her to a happy ending. Establishing the theme decent people get happy endings. The story as a whole is pretty bland. There's barely any characterization so you have no attachment to any characters. Not that you would gain any attachment in the first place considering how fast the story moves. Conflicts would be introduced and solved in one paragraph fast. But after all its just a Cinderella story and anyone who loves the character would be pretty interested reading the original. So if you love Cinderella this is a quick read that i feel you would enjoy.

[ale (taylor's version) everett · Rating 3 out of 5]

¡LOS PAJARITOS LE QUITARON LOS OJOS A LA HERMANASTRAS DE CENICIENTA!
¡¿QUÉ?!

Y ¡EL PADRE DE CENICIENTA ERA TREMENDO ESTÚPIDO TRATANDO A SU HIJA COMO SI FUERA SERVICIO!

faltó justicia de los pajaritos hacia la madrastra.

PARA NADA IGUAL A LA PELÍCULA
sangre
mucha sangre
jejeje
y sin la hada madrina, si no un pajarito que te daba vestidos de plata y zapatos de oro.
Necesito a ese pajarito en mi patio.

[Paige · Rating 5 out of 5]

The true Cinderella story. Much darker than you hear from your childhood. I really hate how Cinderella dad betrays her by forgetting her as his daughter.

I have all the Grimm Tales and i love the classic ones we all know. I absolutely loved this fairy-tale and how the step sisters get what they deserved. Serves you right when you're black of heart.

[Danny Books · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

¡Totalmente diferente de el cuento de Disney! Hay mucha sangre aquí y el padre no esta muerto! Y dejo que maltrataran así a su hija, no hay hada madrina y palomas que pican ojos, todo muy raro.

[Izzy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mi infancia está siendo destruida. Gracias(?

Grandes cambios con respecto a las ´versiones Disney´ a las que estoy acostumbrada. Esto es MUCHA sangre.

[Belén · Rating 4 out of 5]

No me imaginé que sea tan diferente a la película de Disney, que nunca me gustó, pero este cuento sí.

[Estefania Pereira · Rating 2 out of 5]

give me more blood on the end for the father and stepmother pls

[luciana · Rating 4 out of 5]

unos capos estos grimm

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Shoot, they call me Cinderella they way my feet been fittin' in shoes 🥿

2 wicked sisters out of 9 silly step mothers *exhales cigarette smoke cooly*