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Cinderella is probably one of the…if not the…most familiar and beloved fairy tales. Marcia Brown’s Caldecott Medal-winning 1954 version utilizes fresh translations of Charles Perrault’s original text to tell the story. The illustrator’s bright and airy, fine line and watercolor pictures effectively capture both the sorrow of the early story and the celebration of the end. Cinderella deviates from the Bothers Grimm original in that the young girl forgives her step sisters rather than making them dance in red hot metal shoes. A difficult to find first edition, first printing in Fine condition in a like dj.