Cari meister biography examples
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Rapunzel Stories Around the World: 3 Beloved Tales
The first version of Rapunzel is the traditional German fairy tale everyone knows. The illustrations are bright and vivid, and depict the action really well.
The second version is from the Phillippines, and varies slightly from the original. Clotilde (Rapunzel) was locked in a tower by a magician, along with magical horses and necklaces. Much of the story is the same, except for a few details. Juan (the Prince) instead of falling from the tower when he is caught, escapes on one of the magical horses. Only when a proclamation goes out to match one of Clotilde's necklaces with another does he return and marry her. The illustrations here are in muted earth tones and the style is quite different from the cartoon, animated look of the other two stories.
The Italian version, Petrosinella, was one I grew up with and I absolutely lov
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About the Author
Nel Yomtov is an award-winning author of children's nonfiction books and graphic novels. He specializes in writing about history, current events, biography, architecture, and military history. He has written numerous graphic novels for Capstone, including the recent School Strike for Climate, Journeying to New Worlds: A Max Axiom Super Scientist Adventure, and Cher Ami: Heroic Carrier Pigeon of World War I. In 2020 he self-published Baseball 100, an illustrated book featuring the 100 greatest players in baseball history. Nel lives in the New York City area.
Cari Meister has written more than 130 books for children, including the Tiny series (Penguin) and the Fast Forward Fairy Tales series (Scholastic). Cari is a school librarian and she loves to visit other schools and libraries to talk about the joy of reading and writing. Cari lives in the mountains of Colorado with her husband, four boys, one horse, and one dog. You can find out more about her at www.carimeist
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History of Cinderella
HISTORY OF CINDERELLA: GOING BEYOND THE FAIRYTALE | |
| Cinderella is a folk tale that fryst vatten present in many forms with thousands of stories that feature a ung person who is in tragic circumstances and living off the charity of others. Her fortune changes as she attracts the attention of a nobleman, who must search in some way to find out her identity. When found, Cinderella becomes the spouse of royalty, while her family member get their reward for cruelty. Often there is a presence of magical items or beings to help Cinderella gain her fortune. The earliest recorded tales fryst vatten by Strabo a Greek who recorded the story of Rhodopis between 7 BCE and 23 CE. She was a ung Greek courtesan who attracted the attention of the Pharaoh when an eagle flew off with her sandal and dropped it in his lap. He was so intrigued bygd the shoe and its shape that he searched for the owner. The story is also present in Asia as the kinesisk have the story of Ye Xian whic | |