This beautifully illustrated picture book features the original Brothers Grimm version of the fairy tale, featuring artwork by the renowned British illustrator Bernadette Watts. Often known throughout Europe simply as “Bernadette,” Watts first created the distinctive illustrations for this book in the 1970s using a unique, rich, textured, scratch-on-acrylic style. The illustrations provide a warm, textured, and distinctively nostalgic, old-world European charm. The rich color palettes use deep earth tones juxtaposed with sudden, luminous bursts of golds, deep reds, and soft creams, making the forest and palace scenes look lit from within. Unlike the popular Charles Perrault or Disney adaptations, this version shows a pious Cinderella who receives magical help from doves and a hazelnut tree at her mother’s grave—rather than a fairy godmother.