This list of variations on the Cinderella story was initially compiled by Kathy Martin from suggestions by readers of the CHILDLIT mailing list. I have added additional titles suggested by Jean Rusting and others. Doris Dale has added additional titles and bibliographical information. Internet Resources The Cinderella Project. A text and image archive of a dozen English-language versions of ...

The Frog King by the Grimm Brothers In olden times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face. Close by the king's castle lay a great dark forest, and under an old lime-tree in the forest was a well, and when the day was very warm, ...

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) Memorable Moments from Great Movies! Great Moments and Scenes from Memorable Movies! Great Lines and Quotes from the Movies! Great Movies with Great Dialogue! Great Stars and Great Characters in Great Moments from Great Movies! Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) is the first full-length animated feature (83 minutes in length) in color and with sound, ...

Rumpelstilzchen by the Grimm Bothers Once there was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautiful daughter. Now it happened that he had to go and speak to the king, and in order to make himself appear important he said to him, I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold. The king said to the miller, that is an art which pleases me well, if your daughter is as clever as you say, bring her ...

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Snow White and other tales of Aarne Thompson type 709 translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman 2002 Contents Little Snow-White, version of 1812 (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm) Link to the 1857 version of the Grimm Brothers' Little Snow-White, entitled here Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (an electronic text from Carnegie-Mellon University) Link to the German-language Sneewittchen (version ...

Cinderella -- a durable European myth teaching women how they are supposed to be is compared with a 19th-century Mi'kmaq revisioning of that story, a cautionary tale.

Sleeping Beauty tales of Aarne-Thompson type 410 translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman Copyright 1998 Return to: Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts. Contents The Ninth Captain's Tale (1001 Nights) Sun, Moon, and Talia (Giambattista Basile) The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Charles Perrault) Little Briar-Rose, version of 1812 (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm) Link to the 1857 version of Little ...

SNOW WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS Selected by Kay E. Vandergrift In order to appreciate the importance of illustration in a children's book and its relationship to the text, one might profitably examine several different sets of illustrations for the same written work. Folk and fairy tales, along with some of the more modern classics, provide ample fare for such examination. Traditional works in the ...

Bluebeard folktales of Aarne-Thompson types 312 and 312A about women whose brothers rescue them from their ruthless husbands or abductors translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman 1999 Contents Bluebeard (France, Charles Perrault). King Bluebeard (Germany). Don Firriulieddu (Italy). The Little Boy and His Dogs (African-American, Joel Chandler Harris). The Brahman Girl That Married a Tiger ...

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde HIGH above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt. He was very much admired indeed. `He is as beautiful as a weathercock, ' remarked one of the Town Councillors who wished to gain a reputation for ...