num_pages: 40
description: Hace mucho tiempo —a long time ago—there lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kindhearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in love with beautiful Adelita, but she disappears from his fiesta at midnight, leaving him with only one clue to her hidden a beautiful rebozo —shawl. With the rebozo in place of a glass slipper, this favorite fairy tale takes a delightful twist. Tomie dePaola's exquisite paintings, filled with the folk art of Mexico, make this a Cinderella story like no other. Please note that the majority of this text is in English, with Spanish vocabulary throughout.
language: English
title: Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story
titlecomplete: Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story
genres: Fiction, Cinderella, Retellings, Childrens, Folk Tales, Picture Books, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Cultural
ratings_count: 1531
places: Mexico
publisher: Puffin Books