So this was the original! Sarah eagerly raised her hand "In the version I read, there was no tree or birds. There were 2 mice that helped Cinderella make a dress. Yet when the step sisters saw the dress Cinderella had made with scraps of material they tore it with rage. Cinderella began to cry after the the family left to the ball and her fairy godmother appeared. The fairy godmother turned a pumpkin into the coach, mice into horsemen etc." the words rushed out of Sarah's mouth - there were so many differences. "Also in the version I read, the clothes Cinderella wore to the ball on the one night was blue, the other night the ballgown was pink and on the last night the ballgown was white. Also in the that version, the shoe she left behind was a glass slipper. And thank goodness the Disney version isn't as gory, with no poking eyes out business or cutting heels and toes off! And in the disney version it is stated that the girls name was Ella at the beginning." There was so much more to say, yet Sarah stopped there in order to give other people a chance.