Cinderella By The Brothers Grimm

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Cinderella by The Brothers Grimm is about a girl named Cinderella who finds a way to attend a festival and ends up marring a prince. Cinderella is the first daughter a noble man who remarries a woman with two daughter of her own. The king announces a festival for the prince to choose a bride. Cinderella asks her stepmother if she could go with them and is denied. With the help of bird in a hazelnut tree she completes impossible tasks set by her step mother and receives a dress and shoes. Cinderella attends the festival for three nights, dances with only the prince even though others asked. When she leaves she eludes the prince every time by hiding but on the last night she left one of her shoes. The prince finds Cinderella’s shoe and uses it

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