Stories With Girls as the Main Character
by Claudia Lee

My Storybook is about stories with girls as the main character. I will retell the classic stories of  The Little Match Girl, Little Red Cap, Cinderella and Snow White. These four stories were my favorite stories when I was a kid. I always hoped that I could be one of the girls among Cinderella nd Snow White,
So I am going to make my own version of these stories and I plan to
change tthe Little Match Girl into happy stories. I think I will add couple new characters in these four stories.
Snow White and Little Red Cap were written by Grimm, Jacob and Whilhelm in 1884. The original story of Snow White was ended by the death of Snow White's evil stepmother, however, the ending of Disney version is the the price saved the Snow White by kissing her and they lived together happily.
Little Match Girl was written by a Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. This is a sad story. The little girl ended up frozen to death in the street.
Since I don't want the match girl to die so I am planning to change both stories into happy one.
Cinderella is one of the most famous kid stories in the world. There are many different version of Cinderella, the most recognizable differences between different versions are with fairy godmother and without fairy godmother. The earliest version comes from China in the middle of the ninth century  A.D., there is no fairy godmother. The most popular version is the Gimm Brothers' German version, it does not have fairy godmother too, it has some magical helpers.
I think Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella have some similar backgrounds among these four stores. Both Snow White and Cinderella had an evil stepmother that treated them very bad. The stepmother of Snow White wanted to kill her  and the stepmother of Cinderella treated her as a maid. They both have someone to help them in the stories. Snow White had seven dwarfs to help her and Cinderella had some magical helpers to help her to the party. Both of them ended up living happily with their prince. Comparing to Cinderella, Snow White was less unlucky because her stepmother tried to kill her 3 times, fortunately, she was saved at the end.

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