A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale: made to work in the cinders by her proud stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella goes to the prince’s ball with her fairy godmother’s help, runs away at midnight leaving a glass slipper behind, and forgives her sisters when the slipper fits.
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Once a gentleman married a very proud woman. Her two daughters were just as proud. But the gentleman’s own daughter was good and sweet, like her mother.
The stepmother gave the girl the hardest work. She scrubbed and swept, and slept on straw in the attic. She rested by the fire, in the cinders and ashes. So the younger sister called her Cinderella.
The king’s son gave a ball, a grand dancing party. The sisters were invited! “I will wear red velvet!” said the older one. “I will wear gold flowers!” said the younger.
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