The Rough Face Girl

The Rough Face Girl was written by Rafe martin and published by Puffin in 1998. The book is illustrated by David Shannon Martin. This book is a folktale remake of Cinderella, set in the Algonquin villages in Canada. The main character of this story is a young girl with no name. She lives in this village with her two proud and cruel sisters and her poor father. The village is ruled over by the Invisible Being. Every woman in the village wants to marry him because he is very wealthy. But the only woman he will marry is the one who can see him. The two sisters attempt to get the Invisible being to marry them, but they fail when they cann't prove they have seen him. After which the young girl, called the Rough Face Girl because of a lifetime of feeding the fire has scarred her face and body and charred her hair, decides she will try her luck. She proves that she has seen the Invisible Being, who loves her despite her scars, and with the help of his sister restores the girl's beauty. The theme of this story is that beauty is only skin deep and what is on the inside matters more.