One Story, Many Voices: Cinderella of the Nile
- Beautifully retold by the award-winning author Beverley Naidoo
- This earliest-known version of Cinderella is brought to life for the modern-day reader
- Rhodopis is a Greek girl who is sold into slavery by bandits and taken to Egypt
- Along the way she becomes friends with the storyteller Aesop and a host of playful animals
- Her master gives her a pair of beautiful rose-red slippers
- Making three other servants jealous
- But when Horus
- The falcon
- Sweeps in to steal her slipper
- Rhodopis has little idea that this act will lead her to the King of Egypt
