The Rough-Face Girl

This week I shared The Rough-Face Girl. It's about a girl with two mean sisters, which reminds me of Cinderella. She was tending to a fire while her sisters danced around and was burned by the embers. Hence, The Rough-Face Girl. She was forever burned and scarred. The village she and her family lived in had heard of a man called the "Invisible Being." All the women wished to marry the man, but had to go through his sister first. The Rough-Face Girl's sisters went to the women and had to prove they had seen the Invisible being. When the woman quizzed the sisters on the man, the sisters had proved themselves liars. The Rough-Face Girl had wanted to marry the man just as everyone else. So she went to the woman, and was quizzed just as the others. This is such an inspiring story, and the illustrations are amazing. They use trees, rainbows, and birds, to make a face. I think its a great mental exercise and can show its readers to look further than what is right in front of you. To use imagination and create extraordinary things out of one image.