Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.Amazon.com Review
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?” repeatedly asks the Queen, Snow White’s stepmother. She always gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, and the mirror must truthfully answer, “Snow White.” At the news, the Queen turns yellow and green with envy and commands the huntsm… More >>
Snow White: And the Seven Dwarfs
I did not think this was an appropriate book for my 5 year old son. It talked in some detail about eating the liver and lung of Snow White. It ends with a description of the demise of the Queen, “But they had already put iron slippers over a fire of coals, and they brought them in with tongs and set them before her. Then she had to put on the red hot slippers and dance till she dropped down dead.” Need I say more? This is not for small children! The pictures are beautiful giving the book a few stars, but there are only pictures on every other spread. My son continued to try to turn the page while I was reading the pages with only words while I am trying to anticipate what to skip over.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is the real Snow White with all the scary things still in the story. For older children on up.
Rating: 5 / 5
Jarrell has translated this from the German version as precisely as he could, and it’s a pleasure to read a Brothers Grimm story as it was originally written. I love the book, however, for the exquisite illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. They are amazingly beautiful–so precise, sensitive, and well-executed, and yet boldly designed. She places us immediately within the scene and then our eyes move from detail to detail, always finding something new.
This is not a book to rush through. If you’re reading it to a young child, who is anxious to hear the story for the first time, you might not be able to linger as long as you’d like over the illustrations (which are not on the same pages as the text). Most children, however, will be as captivated by the illustrations as they are by the story. Jarrell and Burkert have done an excellent job together. For those of you who collect beautiful books, make sure you have this one.
Denise Hillman Moynahan
The Great Cavern of the Winds: Tales from Backbone Mountain
Rating: 5 / 5
this was not my favorite book but you can tell that it had to tack along time for them to come up with the pictures in this book. i thought that thee book was pretty easy to read i loved how she got back awak. my favorite part in this story was when she got awak at the end . I think that this was a good book for a fairy tale but you could tell that she was they were in a fake place. so i still rated it a five becuse it was a good book.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is very nice — large format and beautiful illustrations — and a great value.
Rating: 5 / 5