Author(s): Tomie DePaola
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 40
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
Language: Spanish
Date Published: 2004-08-05
Dimensions: 223.5 x 269.2 x 2.5mm
Publication City/Country: Hawthorn, Australia
Edition: Reprint
Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified

Hace mucho tiempo--a long time ago--there lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kindhearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in love with beautiful Adelita, but she disappears from his fiesta at midnight, leaving him with only one clue to her hidden identity: a beautiful rebozo--shawl. With the rebozo in place of a glass slipper, this favorite fairy tale takes a delightful twist. Tomie dePaola's exquisite paintings, filled with the folk art of Mexico, make this a Cinderella story like no other.