Far Eastern Books Online

Yeh-hsien (A Chinese Cinderella)
by Dawn Casey
illustrated by Richard Holland The oldest version of the Cinderella story originates from China. Befriended by a magical fish, Yeh-hsien is granted her dearest wish - to go to the village festival where she loses a slipper... What a wonderful find....It is salutary for children to learn that traditional tales crop up across the entire world in very similar forms...a rags-to-riches story, a virtue rewarded story, a triumph of goodness over meanness and greed, with the wicked stepmother and stepsisters getting their rightful come-uppance. (Angela Redfern, The School Librarian) Available in English with:
Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Chinese-Simplified, English, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Kurdish, Panjabi, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese

Ages: 5-9