- Cuentos de hadas, Fairy tales, Ficción juvenil, Fiction
A Caldecott Honor and Reading Rainbow book, this memorable retelling of Cinderella is perfect for introducing children to the fairy tale as well as the history, culture, and geography of the African nation of Zimbabwe.
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Earnest, classical in form, resolved and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- John Steptoe, Joe Steptoe, Robin Miles
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- African Amer Images, Mulberry Paperback Book, Silver Burdett Ginn
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780688040451
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“A LONG TIME AGO, in a certain place in Africa, a small village lay across a river and half a day's journey from a city where a great king lived.”
John Lewis Steptoe, creator of award-winning picture books for children, was born in Brooklyn on September 14, 1950 and was raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of that borough. He began drawing as a young child and received his formal art training at the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan. He was a student in the HARYOU-ACT Art Program and instructed by the highly recognized African American oil painter, Norman Lewis. He continued his studies at the Vermont Academy, where he was instructed by sculptor John Torres, and by William Majors, a painter acclaimed by the Museum of Modem Art for his etchings and printmaking. His work first came to national attention in 1969 when his firs
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