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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore - Humorous Retelling
Retail Price: $8.99
Ages: 04 - 08 Pages: 40
Hace mucho tiempo—a long time ago—there lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kind-hearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in love with beautiful Adelita, but she disappears from his fiesta at midnight, leaving him with only one clue to her hidden identity—a beautiful rebozo— shawl. With the rebozo in place of a glass slipper, this favorite fairy tale takes a delightful twist. Tomie dePaola's exquisite paintings, filled with the folk art of Mexico, make this a Cinderella story like no other.