Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal by Paul Fleischman

Book: Glass Slipper, Good Sandal
Author: Paul Fleischman
ISBN: 978-0-8050-7953-1
U$1.00-B-0.006065-BE-165

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1. The 9th Century has the first recorded Cinderella story.

2. Cinderella originated in China.

3. The Cinderella story acquired the glass slipper in France.

4. Cinderella's father was a merchant.

5. The widow gave Cinderella pan dulce to eat and sugarcane to chew.

6. This Cinderella version is from Mexico.

7. Cinderella's stepmother had her set to weeding the rice fields, cooking, and carrying stuff.

8. Cinderella's stepmother gave her room to her lazy daughters.

9. Cinderella slept inside the hearth.

10. This Cinderella version is from Korea.

11. Answers will vary

12. Answers will vary

13. This Cinderella version is from Iraq.

14. The cattle gave Cinderella honey from its horn.

15. This Cinderella version is from Russia.

16. This Cinderella version is from Iran.

17. This Cinderella version is from India.

18. Answers will vary

19. Answers will vary

20. The Cinderella version we know has a king.

21. Prince

22. This Cinderella version is from Germany.

23. This Cinderella version is from Appalachia.

24. This Cinderella version is from Germany.

25. This Cinderella version is from Appalachia.

26. Cinderella looked in her mother's sewing basket.

27. Cinderella reached into the hole in the birch tree.

28. A crocodile swam up to the surface and in its mouth was a sarong made of gold.

29. This is the Chinese version of Cinderella.

30. No, it has the red kimono like a sunset.

31. France had the glass slipper.  India had diamond anklets.  Iraq has sandals of gold.

32. The West Indies had a big round breadfruit instead of a pumpkin.

33. True

34. The French version had the midnight deadline for the spell to end.  The Indonesian version had a rooster instead of a cloak.

35. The Irish version has Cinderella leaving the ball on a horse/mare.

36. The Irish version has the Prince chasing after Cinderella and grabbing her leg as she rides away keeping her shoe/slipper.

37. The king searched up and down mountains.

38. The King traveled across deserts in the Iran version.

39. Cinderella was hidden in a mat in the Laos version.

40. The Iraq version

41. The magistrate didn't listen to stepmother and placed straw sandal on Cinderella's foot with ease.

42. The Zimbabwe version of Cinderella had mangoes and melons at the feast.

43. The Indian version had rice seasoned with almonds.

44. Beef stew and lamb stew was the Irish version of Cinderella.

45. Anise cookies and custards was the Mexican version of Cinderella.