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.
Title: Cinderella
Author: Brothers Grimm. Jacob (1785-1863). Wilhelm (1786-1859)
Illustrator: Bernadette Watts
Publisher: North South Books. New York
Copyright: 2026
Original Language: German
Translator: Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwards
Original Title: Aschenputtel
Original Publisher: NordSud Verlag AG
Original Copyright: 1812, (1978)
ISBN: 978-0-7358-4643-2
Hardcover pages: 32
Age range: 4-8
Genre: Picture book, Fairytale
Author’s ethnicity: German
Illustrator’s ethnicity: English
Illustrator’s residence: Northampton, England
Subjects: Fairytales, Folktales, Golden slipper, Princes, Self-esteem. Stepmothers, Stepsisters.
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