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Chlo Broadwater
Dr. Virginia Schreier
LAE4424: Literature Analysis
10/21/16

Multicultural Literature Analysis

The Rough Faced Girl
Written by Rafe Martin
Illustrated by David Shannon
Puffin Books, 1992
ISBN 978-0-698-11626-9

The story of Cinderella is one that is quiet well known but it has never been told like this.
This story of Cinderella has been given a Native American twist. The story and illustrations with
in this book are truly beautiful and captivating. The Rough Faced Girl is about a girl that has
been bullied by her older sisters. They make her deal with their fire and causes her to be burned
and scarred earning her the name of Rough Faced Girl. There is a man called the Invisible Man
that all the women in the tribe would like to marry including all three of the sisters. However in
the end it was the Rough Faced Girl that married him in the end.

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Throughout Rough Faced Girls journey it shows how she is very un-materialistic. Unlike her
siblings that ask their father for the finest skins, shoes, and shells in order to impress the Invisible
Man. Whereas the Rough Faced Girl had used old shoes and decorated her dress with the sun,
moon, and animals. She had taken appreciation in the nature around her and had seen the
Invisible Man in it. This is what allowed her to become his wife. This book helps to teach
children to appreciate the beauty around them and to be materialistic is not important.

Written by Jeannette Franklin Caines

Illustrated by Pat Cummings
New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, 1982.
SBN13: 9780064430562

This story had been truly interesting to see African American culture in this story. This
story is about a girl and her aunt that travel together. This story really keeps to the time that it
was written but also is easily relatable to those who read it. The journey between Aunt Beatrice
and her niece is interesting to see their lackadaisical traveling to their familys uptightness.

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You are able to travel along with the ladies and see different places. The illustrations are
light and fun in this book help to carry on the low-key traveling mood. Its characters help to
show their love for one and other and how they take care of each other in small ways.

References
Caines, J. F., & Cummings, P. (1982). Just us women. New York, N.Y: Harper & Row.
Martin, R., & Shannon, D. (1992). The Rough-Face Girl. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.