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• Oct. 22, 2007 - Children's Book Monday: The Rough Face Girl

As we've been studying Native Americans, we found this treasure--The Rough Face Girl by Rafe Martin.

It is an Indian version of Cinderella about a young Algonquin girl. She is forced to take care of the fires for her family and becomes scarred by the flames. Her beautiful, yet proud sisters mistreat her and go in search for the Invisible Being to marry. They are denied because they can not "see" him, giving their sister a chance to meet and marry him. (Look through the pages yourself to find the hidden face of the invisible being. You won't want to miss the beautiful illustrations by David Shannon.)

However, this story is more than a rags to riches tale. It is a wonderful book to teach that true beauty lies within and that faith, courage,and kindness conquers all.

Fun projects to go along with the book: Make your own wigwams and teepees like we did.

Compare the original version of Cinderella with The Rough Face Girl, using a Venn Diagram.

Please visit my friend Elise's Children Book Monday! She is having a drawing this week for a free children's book.

Comments

• Oct. 22, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by socalval

Hi Friend! Just stopping by to say hello. We're busy here - lots of smoke in the air due to the fires all around here. We're safe, but smoked out. Windows are closed and so are the doors. The kids are staying inside with me today - fun. Hope you are having a good Monday.

Talk to you soon.

Valerie

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• Oct. 22, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Elise

As always, sounds like another wonderful, educational book! And beautiful illustrations, to boot! :) Thanks!

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• Oct. 24, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

This looks really good. How timely for me you should post this.

We will add this to our Cinderella unit. We are going to compare Cinderella through different cultures. We have a couple different ones, including one called Cinder Lad which I understand is an Irish version.

Joyful Days
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• Oct. 24, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

This book sounds wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing. We'll be adding this to our book list.

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• Oct. 24, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

The above anonymous comment was from me. (Sorry about that)

Renee'
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• Oct. 28, 2007 - Thanks!

Posted by 40winkzzz

We are just starting to study Westward Expansion, and the curriculum-which-I-don't-exactly-follow (a la my other comment today on another post of yours :-) touches on Native Americans in a few weeks. (Which may or may not be "in a few weeks" for us, since I tend to expand on what the curriculum suggests.) I am going to jot this down as possible reading material for that time. I just looked it up on our library website and there are plenty of copies in the system. Thanks!

I REALLY ought to start recommending books on my own blog. We read so many good ones.

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