Lovely illustrations from one of my favorite illustrators. This Grimm's fairy tale is a favorite, well-know story by many. Snow White's mother dies. One short year later, her father marries a beautiful and vain woman who has a magical mirror. Not trusting her beauty, she is obsessed with looking in the mirror and hearing that she is the fairest of all.

Until, one day, she hears a different mantra. The voice now tells her that young Snow White is fairer by fair than her. Telling a huntsman to take the young girl into the woods and kill her, and to bring back proof of his evil deed. Alas, he cannot kill a little girl and brings the heart of a deer to the evil queen.

While trying to find a secure place in the woods, the animals do not harm her. Finally, exhausted, she finds a small cottage with seven beds and seven plates. She falls asleep in the last/biggest bed. The dwarfs find her and ask her to stay with them. She cooks and cleans and loves the dwarfs.

Pleading with her not to open the door, she is asked by a woman to buy her pretty wares. She enters the cottage and pulls Snow White's corset tighter and tighter. The seven dwarfs rescue her. Another time the queen approaches Snow White and combs her beautiful black hair with the poisoned comb. Once again the dwarfs return home and rescue Snow White. But, the final time the queen visits, she gives Snow White a beautiful red apple that was poisoned.

The dwarfs cannot bring her back to life this time. Encasing her in a clear glass box, she is taken high in the mountains. One day, many years later, a handsome prince, finds the dwarf's house and then stopping in the mountain, he gazes upon Snow White. His servants carry her coffin down the mountain, and in doing so, the poisoned piece of apple falls out of her mouth.

When once again the mirror told the queen that Snow White is the fairest, she searches and finds Snow White. Frozen with anger and fright, she is given a pair of magical slippers. The minute they were on her feel, she had to dance faster and faster..

Snow White and the Prince live happily ever after.

The End. ( )

This story would be good for a second or third grade classroom to teach retelling and determining the moral or lesson in the folktale. You could also use it to teach comparing and contrasting and have students compare this version to the Disney movie version of Snow White. ( )

This traditional literature tells of the original tale of a young beautiful girl named Snow White trying to survive the clutches of the Evil Queen. In order to appease her obsession of being the "fairest of all," the Evil Queen employs the skills of a Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest and kill her. as the story continues, Snow White finds a way to escape the Huntsman and the story ends as the Evil Queen eventually meeting her death. The author did a great job in not only the illustrations, but portraying Snow White as a beautiful girl. This classical book is great to share with your children.