Multi-Cultural Cinderlla Story

Glass Slipper Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
By Paul Fleischman
Illustrated by Julie Paschkis

This isn’t just any old fairy tale. This is Cinderella with a global twist.

Glass Slipper Gold Sandal, by Paul Fleischman, weaves 17 different countries together in this story.

Each lends the words and images of their own Cinderella stories to the retelling of this classic tale.

In France, Cinderella wears glass slippers, but in India she wears diamond anklets and in Iraq she wears sandals of gold.

The various traditions and cultures weave together to create a story that is familiar but new.

Readers come to realize that while the details of our daily lives might differ on the surface, in the end, “happily ever after” means the same thing everywhere.