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 Bring this most classic of all literary fairy tales to life in your school. You, your children and your staff will be completely enchanted! "Cinderella" has been handed down to us through the centuries in various forms and can be traced back as far as Ninth Century China. The literary classic that we know today is from Seventeenth Century France.
Bruno Bettelheim, in his book, The Uses of Enchantment, says:
“No other fairy tale renders so well as the “Cinderella” stories the inner experiences of the young child in the throes of sibling rivalry, when he feels hopelessly outclassed by his brothers and sisters. Cinderella is pushed down and degraded by her stepsisters; her interests are scarified to theirs by her (step)mother; she is expected to do the dirtiest work and although she performs it well, she receives no credit for it; only more is demanded of her. This is how the child feels when devastated by the miseries of sibling rivalry.”
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