Cinderella

Cinderella is a traditional literature book translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown. The book is translated from the French version written by Charles Perrault. This book won the Caldecott medal all the way back in 1955. This book would be great for students in about 2nd-3rd grade because there are still pictures in it and the font is a bit bigger than it would normally be so they would be able to read it with ease. This book is about a young girl named Cinderella, whose father married a very evil woman, with just as evil stepdaughters. The stepmother made Cinderella do all of the chores around the house because she didn't like how the goodness in Cinderella made her own two daughters seem even worse. In this version of Cinderella, she meets her fairy godmother and attends two balls, where she goes unrecognized and everyone enjoys her company, especially the prince. At the end of the second ball, she loses track of time and must leave in a hurry, causing her to leave a glass slipper behind. The prince then searches high and low, having every woman trying on the glass slipper until he finally finds Cinderella, and the glass slipper does fit her. After the slipper is put on, Cinderella's fairy godmother reappears and transforms her, and everyone realizes she was the beautiful princess at the balls.

As a teacher, I would definitely use this book in my classroom. I think it teaches the children a great lesson about staying humble and being kind. I also think 3rd grade is a great level for the book because the children are able to read it themselves. It's a good read-aloud for younger children, but there is some challenging vocabulary in it. If I was to have this book in my classroom, I would probably introduce it during a read aloud and then put it in the classroom library so children could go back and read it if they chose to. I'm not sure if this book would fit into the curriculum, but it's good for children to receive a valuable lesson from the book.