- Typical Americanized Cinderella story
- Cinderella's mother died, father remarries
- Evil stepmother, two stepsisters
- Forced to wear rags and do dirty work
- Prince holds a ball for all the girls in the kingdom
- Fairy godmother grants wish to go to ball
- Pumpkin, rats, mice, lizards turned into stagecoach, chauffeur, horses, and footmen
- Cinderella stays until midnight, loses glass slipper
- Prince finds Cinderella, live happily ever after
- Bigfoot prince only interested in ugly, odorous nature-loving girls with matted fur
- Prince hosts a log rolling fun fest for all the Bigfeet
- Beary godfather gives Rrrrrella bark-clogs
- Rrrrrella defeats prince then runs back home and loses bark-clog
- Prince finds her and they live happily ever after
- Story based on Irish boy named Becan
- Stepmother and stepsisters torture him because of his big feet
- Becan escapes family farm
- Befriends a magical bull
- Becan finds a princess imprisoned by giant and fire-breathing dragon
- After defeating them, he leaves
- Princess searches for owner of enormous boot until finding Becan
- Couple have a daughter, name her Pear Blossom and plant a pear tree to celebrate her birth
- Mother later dies, father remarries a widow with a daughter
- Stepmother and stepsister torture her with nearly impossible work, forcing her to stay up late every night
- Help from magical creatures
- All women leave for festival to meet the magistrate
- Pear Blossom gets help to finish early and go to the festival
- Leaves before she is spotted, loses her straw sandal
- Magistrate follows river back, finds Pear Blossom and marries her
- Maha's mother drowned
- Father refuses to remarry, finally agrees to marry
- Stepmother and stepsister become jealous
- Maha finds magic talking fish
- All women attend merchant's daughter's henna after wedding to find a husband
- At midnight, Maha leaves, losing golden sandal
- Bride's brother finds sandal in river, his mother searches for the owner
- Stepmother hides Maha in bread oven but Maha is found
- Stepmother tries oil to repel Tariq and fails, husband's brother wants to marry Maha's stepsister
- Mother tries same oil on daughter to help her
- Similar theme to Nightmare before Christmas
- Lives in mausoleum with evil stepmother and two stepsisters
- Chores include: hang up cobwebs, fill vases with dead flowers, litter floor with leaves, and feed bats
- Prince holds annual Halloween Ball
- Cinderella visits good witch who asks for jack-o'-lantern, 6 rats in a trap, two bats and a black cat which become hearse, nightmares (part horse, part dragon), chauffeur and footmen
- Cinderella stays until sunrise, foot falls off as she runs home
- Prince searches kingdom for owner of foot, finds Cinderella and they live happily ever after
- Oldest known Cinderella story, dates back to 9 B.C.
- Old man and magical fish instead of fairy godmother
- Stepmother tricks fish, kills it and cooks it for dinner
- Emperor in town looking for a wife, all women go to meet him
- Old man tells Yeh-Shen fish spirit is still in her, she wishes to see him and is given a beautiful gown and golden slippers
- Yeh-shen goes to see him, leaves before she is spotted and loses her slipper
- Kidnapped from Greece by pirates, kept as slave in Egypt
- Rhodopis looks different than Egyptians, Greek name for "rosy cheeks"
- Master sees Rhodopis dancing, makes her rose-red gold slippers
- Three evil house servants bully her, delegate all their work to her
- Prince in another town looking for a wife
- Falcon steals shoe
- Prince searches for owner of shoes, finds Rhodopis and marries her
- Setting in Martinique
- Godmother adopts Cendrillon
- Godmother's own mother gave her magic mahogany wand
- Godmother uses wand to get Cendrillon to ball, chaperones her
- Godmother pulls Cendrillon away at midnight, loses embroidered slipper
- Based on artwork, setting appears to be in China
- Story follows typical American/European plot
- Only difference is a Furry Godmother
- There are over 1,500 varieties of the Cinderella folktale!
- What are some similarities and differences you notice in the stories?
- Write your own Cinderella short story. How would you tell it differently?
Personal Connections
In 5th or 6th grade, I had to write my own version of Cinderella, which I called "Cinderfella"
Cinderella Around the World