Kids On KidLit: Auriel (grade 2) reviews THE EGYPTIAN CINDERELLA #kidlit #literacy #elemed

I read The Egyptian Cinderella and I liked it very much! It was written by Shirley Climo and illustrated by Ruth Heller.

The Egyptian Cinderella is the Egyptian version of our Cinderella. In Egypt, there lived a Greek maiden called Rhodopis who was stolen by pirates when she was a small child and sold as a slave to an Egyptian master.

But because she is Greek, and a slave, the Egyptian girls didn't like her. She had been given a pair of rose-red slippers by her master because she danced so beautifully. When a falcon swoops down and snatches a slipper away, Rhodopis is heartbroken.

How is Rhodopis to know that the falcon has delivered her slipper to the great Pharaoh himself? She can't guess that the Pharaoh will search all of Egypt to find the owner of the tiny shoe and make her his queen.  When the Pharaoh finally finds Rhodopis, she is the only maiden that the slipper fits and the Pharaoh marries her. This is how Rhodopis became the queen of Egypt.

In closing, The Egyptian Cinderella is very entertaining and easy to read. It is interesting to learn about the different views of other cultures and the illustrations are really beautiful, too!

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