Robert D. San Souci's The Talking Eggs. Cinderella-esque story set in Louisiana - Blanche is the neglected/abused younger sister who befriends an old grandma in the woods and, with her help, tricks her mom and older sister into choosing the wrong eggs and getting stings and burns instead of beautiful clothes and riches.
back to the fairy tales, i suppose, and also to my beloved 6th grade teacher who had a Cinderella unit for about a month, wherein we read as many Cinderella stories, from as many different cultures as we could, wrote comparative papers, wrote our own stories and plays and made various pieces of art. I'll probably end up writing about another of the books i discovered during that unit later, but this was actually one i'd had since i was little. probably up there with Captain Ogeereadmore as the books i requested for bedtime the most when i was little. more empowering than traditional cinderella and beautiful illustrations... the dog ate a corner of our copy and i was so unhappy, because every bit of the page is covered in gorgeous detail.
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