Thursday's Quotable: Rafe Martin

Illustration by David Shannon from
The Rough-Face Girl: An Algonquin Cinderella
by Rafe Martin

"To see good rewarded and evil punished, or justice, is rare. Stories, however, pass on the realities not of the everyday world but of the human heart. One way in which the universal yearning for justice has been kept alive is by the many tales of Cinderella…In each version, the cruel and thoughtless at last get their just reward, as do those who are kind and good"

--Rafe Martin, author & storyteller

Read Rafe's article, “Why Folktales?”