Ages 4–8 StoryCinderella, Retold
Ella! Shoes. Ella! Hair. Ella! The fire. Three voices from three rooms, and a bowl of lentils tipped into the ashes before anyone will let her near the ball. Ella picks out every one herself. Her godmother turns up late, with mud on her boots and a walking stick, and gives her three taps and one rule: it ends on the last bell of midnight, not one heartbeat longer. So Ella counts. She leaves on the eleventh bell, stands one glass slipper neatly on the palace step, and walks home with the other one in her apron pocket. When the prince comes up the lane with a shoe on a cushion, she does not need to try it on. Retold from the traditional public-domain tale: no animal helpers, no songs, no shattering shoes. Two pauses: how many bells is midnight, and what is in her pocket. Ends on her name. Just Ella.
- Voice
- Warm, wry storyteller voice
- Language
- English (US)
- Format
- MP3 · 3.4 MB
- Runtime
- 4 minutes
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Tracks
- Ella! Ella! Ella!0:40
- Three Taps0:45
- Eleven Bells0:45
- The Other One1:21
What's inside
Ella does the work herself: clears the lentils from the ashes, counts eleven bells so she leaves before the twelfth, and stands one glass slipper on the step on purpose.
Meets a godmother who is late, muddy, and out of patience, three taps of a walking stick, and a prince who asks her name three times without waiting for the answer.
Two built-in pauses: your child works out how many bells midnight is, and guesses what Ella has in her apron pocket. Retold from the traditional tale, nothing borrowed from any film.
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