title: Cinderella and Other Tales from Perrault
author:  Charles Perrault 
description: Grade 1-4-- In these eight familiar tales, the uncredited translations follow the French closely, except for a few deleted passages, retaining much of the formal, literary style of the originals. Each tale bears an emblematic title page and one or two full-page paintings illustrating standard moments: the Prince discovers the Sleeping Beauty, a simpering Red Riding Hood meets the wolf in the wood, Master Cat confronts the Ogre, Cinderella flees down the palace steps. The ink and watercolor paintings bear Hague's trademarks: the rich dusky palette filling the page, the misshapen figures and their placement in the foreground, and a tendency to overembellish, in this case with a repeated stylized floral border whose bright color and crisp style clash with the romanticized pictures. --Karen Litton, London Public Libraries, Ontario, Canada<br />Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **T** **HE** **T** **ALES OF** **M** **OTHER** **G** **OOSE**
  
   **B** **Y** **C** **HARLES** **P** **ERRAULT**
  
  The Tales of Mother Goose  
  As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696  
  Charles Perrault
  
  CINDERELLA, OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER.
  
  ONCE UPON A time there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the
  proudest and most haughty woman that ever was seen. She had two daughters of
  her own, who were, indeed, exactly like her in all things. The gentleman had
  also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she
  took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
  
  The wedding was scarcely over, when the stepmother’s bad temper began to show
  itself. She could not bear the goodness of this young girl, because it made
  her own daughters appear the more odious. The stepmother gave her the meanest
  work in the house to do; she had to scour the dishes, tables, etc., and to
  scrub the floors and clean out the bedrooms. T