Cinderella is known in more than thousand variants all over the world. Yet, Perrault's Cendrillon is the one which became a standard on which Disney's version as probably the best known of all is built. Her we have it as John Rea Neill saw it. It is one of many cheap editions and would be probably forgotten very soon if not illustrated by one of the most prolific American illustrators of the time. The books was published in 1908 in Chicago by Reilly and Briton company as number eight in the series of twelve books called Childrens Red Books. Each of the books presented two stories for children, all of them adapted to fit the format and this book was no exception. The Cinderella (The Little Glass Slipper) was the first of the two stories in this volume. The Three Bears was the second. You'll notice all illustrations, although in full color, were done in low quality printing technique with limited set of shades for red, yellow and green. Whole book, together with all decorative elements and the other story (The Three Bears) is available on this address.
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Who Was Charles Perrault?He wrote only eight fairy tales in prose and three in verse, yet he is rightfully called the father of modern fairy tale. Archives
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