In this book there are three sisters named Fair, Brown, and Trembling. Fair and Brown always wore their new dresses to church on Sunday but would not let Trembling go with them. On three different Sundays however the henwife magically made Trembling three beautiful dresses to wear to church. Trembling would go to church and stand in the doorway where her sisters did not recognize her. As Trembling rode home on the third Sunday the Prince of Emania pulled off her shoe as she rode by. The Prince of Emania searched the land for the woman whose foot fit this shoe for he wanted to marry her. Eventually the prince found Trembling and they were married living happily ever after. I would use this book in my classroom as an example of how one story can have the same basic principle but vary differently from culture to culture. This book could also be used to compare and contrast the two versions of Cinderella to see what was the same and different in both.
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