5/24/2023 0 Comments Yeh-Shen by Ai-Ling LouieHe follows her home when she stealthily removes the slipper from its pavilion.įinally, there’s no reconciliation between Cinderella and her step-sisters, as there is in Perrault’s tale. Instead of meeting during the ball, Yeh-Shen’s prince hides in waiting while women try on Yeh-Shen’s slipper. One of the differences, as highlighted in our text, concerns the source of magical intervention that lets Cinderella “go to the ball.” Instead of a fairy godmother, Yeh-Shen is aided by the bones of her beloved pet fish.Īnd the meeting between Yeh-Shen and her prince is different from the meeting described in the 1697 European version that was written by Charles Perrault. Intrigued by the statement in our text for Children’s Literature, that a story from China “predates the earliest European version of Cinderella by 1,000 years” (Johnson 131), I chose the 1982 retelling of Yeh-Shen by Ai-Ling Louie, illustrated by Ed Young, as one of two different visual or literary interpretations of Cinderella.
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