Ankit Kalani Kalani itibaren Real Del Obispo, Tenerife, Magdalena, Colombia
The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story By Rebecca Hickox Illustrated by Will Hillenbrand Published by Holiday House 1998 Picture Book Rebecca Hickox uses an Iraqi version of the tale of Cinderella to base The Golden Sandal around. The story is structured like Cinderella: father remarries, step mother and sister are evil, Cinderella meets a handsome boy, he finds her and they live happily ever after. This version centers around Maha, a fishermans daughter who encouraged and wanted her father to remarry after her mother drowned. Her new stepmother is mean and only "fed her nothing but a few dried dates." Instead of a fairy godmother, Maha has a talking red fish who she saved from being eaten. The fish helps her through many troubled times and eventually provides the beautiful clothes for her to wear. Maha gets to attend the henna party of a wealthy bride to be. In this version, she never meets her true love until the day of their marriage. Tariq, a wealthy merchant son finds her sandal and wishes to marry the owner. Maha is found, even though her stepmother locked her in the oven and the marriage is arranged by Tariq's mother. They marry and Maha's step sister becomes ugly and cannot make a marriage. Middle Eastern culture is brought to many reader's attention who may have little previous knowledge of Iraqi customs. The main occupations (fisherman and merchant) speak to class differences, while the henna party is illuminated as an important marriage custom. The arranged marriage is also a part of the culture shown through the well-known fairy tale. It is very different in this version that "Cinderella" never meets her prince or falls madly in love at first sight. I really liked the aspect of the fish being the godmother and the rooster giving away the place where the evil stepmother hid Maha. The illustrations were done on vellum paper in pencil and various types of paints. Reading the story, I was fairly indifferent to the illustrations. I liked them and thought they were very pretty, but thought they could have better contributed to the story. I think I would have liked to seen several different scenes illustrated than those chosen, like the moment when Tariq lifts his bride's veil and not the ugly stepsister at the end. After I read the illustrator's note I looked back at the illustrations and saw great technical and artistic skill, which made me want them employed to better use even more.
i have seen the movie and it is about these girl that sleep with king trying to produce an heir to the thrown finally when mary does the king doesn't want anything to do with her and it is all annes fault. watch the movie to find out more.