About: Princess Furball

Princess Furball is a 1989 children's book written by Charlotte Huck and illustrated by Anita Lobel. It was Huck's first of five books she wrote for children, and one of dozens Lobel has illustrated in her career spanning over five decades. The story is, according to the author's inscription, "one of the many variants of the Cinderella story [...] readers will recognize it as being similar to the English 'Catskin' and to the Grimms' 'Many Furs' or 'Thousand Furs'." It is also independently considered a retelling of Cinderella, originating in the British Isles as well as Central and Eastern Europe. Between 1989 and 1994, 22 editions of the book were published between both English and Japanese. It has been used in classroom curricula.