Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen retold by Ken Setterington.

There once was an evil magician who created a magical mirror with strange powers. The mirror could make anything that was good/beautiful look horrid and anything horrid look attractive. The evil magician flew the mirror up into the heavens to poke fun at the angels. Laughing so hard, he dropped the mirror and it broke into fine, sand-like pieces.

Ken Setterington retells the story of what happened when a little glass piece flew into a boy named, Kay. Kay became rude to his close friend, Gerda, and he ran off to the Snow Queen's palace. Gerda goes off to find and save Kay. Gerda gets a lot of help from many people such as an old lady who did witchcraft, a princess, a prince, animals, flowers, and even a little robber-girl (who at first hurt her).
The book is broken up into seven different stories explaining Gerda's adventure into more details that all leads up to her finding Kay. Gerda finally finds Kay, but he is cold and frozen. He doesn't recognize Gerda due to his frozen heart. Gerda lets out tears that are so warm which unfreezes his heart. Kay tears up and the tears wash away the glass from his eyes. The go back home & live happily ever after.

This story was originally written by Hans Christian Andersen. Setterington is just retelling us the story.
Compared to the retold story by Allison Grace MacDonald, Setterington's story is longer and add a lot more detail into Gerda's adventure into finding her friend, Kay.

Setterington broke his fairy tale in seven stories:
The First Story: The Mirror and Its Fragments.
The Second Story: A Little Boy and A Little Girl
3rd: The Enchanted Flower Garden
4th: The Prince and The Princess
5th: The Little Robber-Girl
6th: The Lapp Woman and The Finn woman
7th: The Snow Queen's Palace ( )

After seeing "Frozen" and two versions of "The Snow Queen" on film, I wanted to read the story by Andersen. It didn't have quite the drama, but I could see how all the movies could derive their stories from this one. What I really loved was the illustrations made from cut paper silhouettes. ( )

Hans Christian Anderson's venturous tale of Kay's succumbing to the Snow Queen and Gerda's journey to resue him showcases the traditional example of a virtuous hero overcoming insurmountable odds and adversity. While the story itself is enjoyable and quickly paced, the sillouette-themed artistic style brings a sense of simplistic fancy to the book. The neatly carved outlines and detailed shapes of the silouettes creates a shadowy and ethereal vibe in the adventure. ( )