Step 2 - Reading

Cinderella

You are going to read the fairy tale Cinderella.
Je gaat het sprookje van Assepoester lezen.

Cinderella

Cinderella was a beautiful girl who lived with her stepmother and her two stepsisters. They were very jealous of her and treated her badly.
They made her work hard: cleaning, cooking and repairing their clothes.

Now, the king of the country had a son, the prince. It was time for the prince to marry, so the king organised a ball. He hoped the prince would find a nice girl and fall in love with her.

All the girls in the country were invited - but the stepmother told Cinderella that she had to stay at home. On the night of the ball, she and the stepsisters left the house in their beautiful dresses. Cinderella was all alone.

She ran into the garden to cry; she was very sad. Then, suddenly, her Fairy Godmother came to her. She turned Cinderella’s old clothes into a beautiful dress.

She also turned a pumpkin into a golden coach, a few mice into lovely black horses and a rat into a coachman. Cinderella could go to the ball, but her Fairy Godmother told her that she had to leave before midnight.

The prince saw Cinderella and thought that she was beautiful. He danced with her all evening. Cinderella thought the prince was very handsome and forgot what her Fairy Godmother had said.

Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve. Cinderella ran out of the palace without saying goodbye. She was in such a hurry that she lost her glass slipper on the stairs.

The prince was in love and wanted to find the girl again, but he didn't even know her name. All he had was the glass slipper. So he ordered his servants to take the slipper and ask every girl in the country to try it on. If the slipper fit, he was going to marry the girl.

The servants came to Cinderella's house. The stepsisters did their best to fit into the slipper, but it didn't work. Their mother tried to keep Cinderella away from the slipper, but that didn't work either.

Cinderella tried on the slipper... and it fit!

The servants took her to the palace. She married the prince and they lived happily ever after.