I've thought about this Algonquin Cinderella book for YEARS... | If The Slipper Fits
Today's Cinderella thing is a particularly fond memory from my childhood: The Rough-Face Girl! It's one of the first non-Disney versions I was introduced to, and the illustrations are beautiful and striking. Trying to figure out where this version came from, though, definitely took me down the rabbit hole a bit...
🤪 BLOOPERS: • The southern is strong today. #bloopers
📖 CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:54 My nostalgia
1:47 Rafe Martin and David Shannon
2:37 The Dewey Decimal System
3:19 Synopsis
5:28 The family situation
6:36 How to be The One
7:22 Is there a fairy godmother?
8:35 The search for a source text
9:24 Charles G. Leland and context of the Mi'kmaq
10:57 Nearly threw hands with a website from 1997
12:22 A tangent about beavers
14:06 The ending that made me feel kinda icky
15:34 More evidence of a kind stepsister!
15:51 Final thoughts
16:28 Outro