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BEDTIME STORIES
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a division
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PRICE STERN SLOAN Los Angeles
Copyright © 1946, 1973 by Price Stem Sloan, Cover Copyright © 1987 by Price Stem Sloan,
Inc. Inc.
360 North La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90048 Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
ISBN 0-8431-4197-2 Wonder Books®
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a registered trademark of Price
Stem
Sloan, Inc.
CINDERELLA
\^J NCE second
w^ife
"You
there
And
a little girl
who had two
whose
father
had married
a
daughters.
we
are," said these
two daughters
"You are good
for nothing but
work, so hurry
are not as pretty as
to the Httle girl.
up and
was
take the ashes out and poke
up
the fire."
because she was always kept busy tending the
raking the cinders, they called her Cinderella.
fire,
Now
happened
It
that in the
country where they hved, the King's son ball.
was going
The two
sisters
to give a
were
and spent days
cited,
all
ex-
in trying
on dresses and looking
at
them-
selves in the mirror.
"You can
our hair for us,"
fix
they said to Cinderella, and she tried their hair in different
do wish
"I
ways.
could go with
I
you," Cinderella said softly.
"You!"
They
laughed.
w^ould the Prince say
you
in
"What he
if
saw
your ragged old dress?"
After they had gone, Cinderella
looked
and
clothes
same,
down
I
sighed.
wish
I
her
old
"Just
the
at
could go," she
whispered.
"And
so
you
shall,"
musical voice behind her.
said
a
Cinderella whirled around, and there stood a beautiful lady
with
a
gold crown on her head.
"Who
are you?" asked Cinderella, staring at this stranger in
wonder. "I
and
am your
I've
come
Prince's ball.
godmother,
fairy
to
send you to the
Run
into the gar-
den, child, and get
me
nice
a
big pumpkin."
did
Cinderella told.
The
waved
fairy
her
over the pumpkin, and
immediately
was.
she
as
changed
wand
it
was
into
a
splendid coach.
"Now we
need horses," said
the fairy godmother. "Bring
me
the mouse-trap."
Cinderella ran to bring the trap,
which was
cage and had six
like fat
a
mice
httle
in
it.
Another wave of the wand, and the
mice became six prancing
/
y^u^
white horses. Cinderella stared
"A coachman now/' you
at
them
in
wonder.
said the godmother.
"Let
me
see.
Have
a rat-trap?"
"Oh She
yes," said Cinderella, her eyes shining set the rat-trap
the door just
enough
down on
to let out
the ground,
one
rat,
with excitement.
and the
fairy
opened
which she tapped with her
wand. "There's your coachman/' she said as the rat changed into a
!
plump
little
man who jumped up on
the coach seat
and took the
reins in his hands. "If
you
will look behind the watering pot in the garden," said
the fairy, "you'll find six lizards."
Sure enough, behind the watermg pot were six green lizards waiting for Cinderella, and they were quickly transformed into
footmen whose clothes were trimmed with
"Have
a
good
time,
my
silver
and gold.
dear," said the fairy godmother.
"But— my
clothes!" said Cinderella timidly.
The
godmother laughed, and she touched Cinderella
fairy
w^ith her
wand.
"Oh-h'h'h!"
gown.
beautiful
Cinderella
cried It
was made
as
she
looked
down
at
her
of cloth of gold and silver, and on
her feet twinkled lovely Uttle sHppers of glass.
"There
is
only one thing for you to remember," said the
"You must be home by midnight, at
twelve o'clock
this
magic will end."
Cinderella said she ber,
and
for'
would remem-
off she started in the
mag-
nificent coach.
What
"Who
a 15
marvelous evening
it
was
she?" everyone asked.
fairy.
"The Prince dances with nobody but
"How Even
lovely she
the King,
to his wife,
is!"
they
who saw
all
his
have never seen
"I
her."
said.
son dancing with Cinderella, said a lovelier
maiden."
"Will you come agam tomorrow night?" the Prince whispered in Cinderella's ear. "I'll
answered happily.
try," she
clock and
saw
it
was
a
Just then she
looked
quarter to twelve, and she sKpped
at the
away
to her waiting coach.
When
her sisters came home, they could talk of nothing but
the mysterious princess. "I
wonder
if
she will
come again tomorrow,"
said one of the
sisters.
Cinderella wondered, too; but the next evening, after her
stepsisters
had
left
for the palace, the beautiful fairy
once more and made the same magic
all
over again.
This time the evening w^as even more wonderful, be.
The time
fairly
appeared
if
that could
flew by,' and Cinderella was so happy dancing
with the Prince
Suddenly dismay
that
it
it
that she forgot
began
was
to strike.
all
about watching the clock.
Looking up, Cinderella saw with
midnight!
She dashed out of the ballroom and such
a
the palace steps, in
hurry that she never even noticed that one of the
slippers
By
down
had come
off
on the
Uttle glass
stairs.
the time she reached her coach, the clock
had finished
Where
striking.
the coach
had stood, there was only
kin lying on the ground. Cinderella scurried
off.
pump-
a big
Her
clothes
changed back into old rags, but strangely enough she
had one always
Httle glass slipper.
as a
early
A messenger
the Prince
had found the mysterious maiden's
was going
to take
it
to every
house
in the
maiden w^ould be
that
What
a hustle
and bustle there w^as then,
their best dresses to
dress, but she
Then
sound
welcome
and wished
had nothing
glass slipper.
that
He
his bride.
as
all
the girls ran to
the King's son. Cinderella
that she could
change her ragged
else to w^ear.
doorway, and
the Prince himself stood in the
stepsisters
the
kingdom, and when he
owner,
face
by
from the palace called out the new^s
its
washed her
it
reminder of what a lovely time she had had.
of a bugle.
put on
still
She made up her mind to keep
The next morning, everyone was awakened
found
had
pushed Cinderella aside
in their
the
two
hurry to try on the
slipper. "I
think
it
will
fit,"
gasped the older
girl;
but try
as she
she could not squeeze her toes into the tiny slipper.
The younger "Let
me
sister
had no better
try," said Cinderella in a
"You!" cried the stepsisters.
luck.
shy
Uttle voice.
"Go back
to the kitchen!"
would,
"No," said the Prince, for he lovely
little
face
and not
at
was looking hard
at
Cinderella's
her ragged clothes. "Let her try."
Cinderella sHpped her foot easily into the glass slipper. Then,
amazement, she drew forth the other slipper from
to everyone's
her pocket and put
At
that
on her other
it
very moment, the
foot.
fairy
godmother appeared and
touched Cinderella's dress- with her wand. There she stood gorgeous
gow^n, and the Prince knelt dow^n
ball
said, "This
is
my own
There was
happy them
a
at
in the
her feet and
true bride."
wonderful wedding, and Cinderella was so
that she forgave the stepsisters for their unkindness, took
to live at the court
/Th
and even found husbands
for them.
SNOW WHITE A
lovely
Queen was
snowy winter
sewing, one
window
sitting
by
to get a breath of air,
on the
'1
wish
had
and
it
happened
few drops
that
of blood
white snow.
clean, I
window,
day. She had raised the
she pricked her finger, and a fell
the palace
a baby,''
thought the Queen, ''with
skin as white as this snow, lips as red as this blood,
and hair
as
black as
Soon afterward, her,
this
windowsill."
a Uttle
daughter
was born
to
and the Queen died.
Everyone
said,
white her skin lovely black
is!
hair!''
''What
How And
a lovely child!
red her
lips!
See
how
And what
so they called her
Snow
White. After a while, the King married again, and the
it