In this Cinderella tale from the Southwest, each of the sisters has an encounter with a magical hawk, but the heroine is kind to the bird and receives a gold star on her forehead. Her spiteful stepsisters go in search of their own gold stars but are rewarded with a donkey's ear and a cow's horn. You can imagine which sister the prince marries
The cloth version is in its third printing with more than 15,000 sold.
Joe Hayes (Santa Fe, New Mexico) is one of America's premier storytellers. Nationally acclaimed for her folkloric style, Gloria Perez died of cancer before completing the illustrations, but she passed the task to her daughter Lucia Angela Perez (Fort Worth, Texas). The transition is wonderfully seamless.
"The telling, in both English and a charming colloquial Spanish, is crisp, lively and individual… The unique flavor of this retelling from the American Southwest makes this not only a good introduction to the teller’s art, but also an engaging entrée into Hispanic culture." —School Library Journal
"An engaging telling of 'Cinderella' … in many ways more interesting than the original." —Booklist
"LITTLE GOLD STAR by Joe Hayes was selected as one of the 30 Best Books of the Year." —Nick Jr. Magazine