Yeh-Shen is slightly different from the other Cinderella tales. The fairy godmother role has been replaced by the bones of her former "best fish" after her evil stepmother caught, killed, and ate him!!
Of course, she looses her golden slipper. Rather than the prince going home to home to locate its owner, he displays the shoe in a pavilion for maidens to come and try it on. Yeh-Shen, having lost the magic of the fish bones when she lost the shoe, now sneaks back in the night to capture her lost slipper only to be followed by the prince. The pair of shoes awakens the magic and she marries the prince.
Yeh-Shen is supposedly based on ancient Chinese manuscripts written 1000 years before the original was written. The illustrations are based on Chinese water color artistry.
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