Far Eastern Books Online

by Dawn Casey
illustrated by Richard Holland
The story of Yesh-hsien is believed to be the original telling of Cinderella. Yeh-hsien is raised by her stepmother who always gives her the hardest chores. Her only friend is a fish, that the wicked stepmother kills! The fish bones are magical and they grant Yeh-hsien's which to go to the village festival where she loses her slipper... You will find many similarities with te Grimm's retelling of this classic folktale.

"Yeh-hsien - A Chinese Cinderella" Inter-Active Literacy CD-ROM is part of a series of e-books that help students to improve their English. Pupils watch a video of the story, complete with vivid illustrations from the original picture book, then take part in fun quizzes on reading and listening comprehension, synonyms, prepositions, capitalisation, word endings, rhyming words, and much more. With the Storytelling function, students can even write their own stories about the buskers, using images from the CD-ROM.


Each Inter-Active Literacy CD-ROM comes with teachers' notes and whiteboard interactivity. Narrated instructions in a choice of eleven languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, Sylheti, Turkish and Urdu) make this the perfect learning tool for the multilingual classroom.


Suitable for Key Stage 1