Annotated Bibliography Assignment

By [Steven Garcia], [Multiculturalism in Cinderella ]

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Brien, Anne Sibley. The Princess and the Beggar: A Korean Folktale. New York: Scholastic, 1993. Print.

A princess sees a beggar, Pabo Ondal, being abused and kicked. She then starts to cry for him and is made fun of by her mother and her father. The mother and father make comments towards her being a wife that cries all the time. The father mocks the peasant, describing him as living in a cave, tearing meat from bones, and so on. The father says that when she is older she would marry the son of a nobel but since she is crying because of the peasant,  they assume she would marry the peasant. They exile her from their palace and she goes to the mountains, Peony Peak, where she meets the beggar she cried for. She teaches him how to read and write, along with some other things, while he cares for her. After a year a royal hunting party passes by and Pabo proves himself as a great hunter and is invited to a festival. He enters a poetry contest and impresses everyone because of how well he was able to write, as if he was part of a royal family. In the end he shows who taught him to write so well and the king recognizes him and his daughter, and he is able to take a position within the royal family.

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Climo, Shirley, and Robert Florczak. The Persian Cinderella. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Print.

Main character Settareh is born with a star on her left cheek, which she was named after. She is forced to live with her stepsisters, cousins, and aunts, which treat her badly. Her fanily is jelous of her beauty so they always put her down. Her father visits them and gives them gold coins to buy gowns for a party. Settarah goes to try to buy nice clothes, but finds a women in need of money and gives her some money. Settarah ends up buying a small blue jug while the rest of her family bought fine clothes. Her family makes fun of her and leaves her and she then goes to her jug. She wishes it were filled with jasmines and it does. Soon after she wishes for things like food and clothing. Finally she then goes to the festival and no one is able to recognize her and her beauty. She returns home early so that no one will find out but on her way there she loses her anklet in a stream. It is recovered and given to a prince and he sets out on a mission to find the person who fits into the anklet. He ends up finding her but soon after her family gets the jug and wish for her to be destroyed. The jug breaks and drops 6 hairpins, which they put into Settareh’s hair and she turns into a dove. The family try to convince the prince to marry one of them but fail to. The prince eventually sees the pins in the dove’s skill and takes them out. The sisters end up getting so angry that their hearts burst and the prince and princess become happy in the end. Story is adapted and based on one of the Arabian Nights.

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Nimmo, Jenny, and Justin Todd. The Starlight Cloak. New York: Dial for Young Readers, 1993. Print.

Oona’s mother dies and she is sent to a foster mother called Mother Brigid. Oona is the daughter of King Curucha, who allows her to return to their palace when he has to go to war. Oona is mistreated by her sisters who make her do all kinds of chores. Mother Brigid is asked to come to the palace to care for Oona, who became very thin because of the mistreat she goes through. Mother Brigid brings an orphan boy named Little Cormac who knows how to play the flute and likes OOna very much. Oona is forced to live in a freezing atic and then is asked by Mother Brigid to attend a wedding at a church because her one of Oona’s sister is getting married. She is given nice fancy clothes, such as a white dress and blue shoes and is not recognized by anyone at church. A prince falls in love with her but she fears that things are moving to fast. In spring she attends church again and the prince manages to get her slipper. He tries to find her but Oona’s sisters lie to the prince saying she is sick. He goes to word and Oona is sad and soon after is pushed off the coast into the sea, swallowed by a whale. Cormac hears Oona playing her flute and soon after is rescued by Cormac and Mother Brigid. Oona’s father returns and he exiles the evil daughter that pushed Oona. This is an Irish tale.

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Paz, Myrna J., and You Tang. Abadeha: The Philippine Cinderella. Auburn, California. Shen's, 2001. Print.

Takes place on an island. Abadeha’s mother dies and soon after her father, Abak, marries another woman with three daughters. The stepmother mistreats Abadeha, making her do chores that are hard and almost impossible. She also mistreats her by beating her if she fails to do the tasks given. First Abadeha is given a black and a whie handkerchief and is told to wash them until the handkerchiefs have reversed in colors. Abadeha goes to a stream to cry and the Spirit of the Forest comes out. The Spirit of the Forest helps Abadeha by making her complete a mystical dance and that in turn reverses the colors. The step mother gets surprised by Abadeha because she was able to complete the task and gives her another one. She makes Abadeha harvest, dry, pound, and winnow rice while also cooking it and putting it in a clay pot. A pig ends up eating some green rice that Abadeha let dry in the sun and also tears the mat. The stepmother ends up beating her for failing the task and makes her reweave the meat. Abadeha goes to the Spirit of the Forest and asks for help. The Spirit helps her, invites her to her home, and gives her a chicken. The stepmother is amazed and angered again and ends up killing the chicken. Abadeha takes the chicken’s feet to the spirit and is told to bury them in her mother’s grave. A tree with jewels and other luxuries arises. Abadeha does not tell anyone about this and a prince passes by the tree and takes a ring from it. His finger swells up and tries to finda  person who can take of the ring. No one except for Abadeha is able to and soon after they become wedded.

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"Cinderella in Film." Glogster EDU. Web. 17 Nov. 2014. <http://jhoertel.edu.glogster.com/cinderella-in-film/>.

A website that has several adaptations of the traditional story of Cinderella. The adaptations that are on this website are films, such as "Cinderella Story," "Ever after," "Rags," and "If the Shoe Fits". It has a mild description of the films and some links to previews of some of these films, such as to youtube. It also has the grades that these films can be shown to(being five, sixth, and 7th grade). It also has the option of making a copy or sharing the page.