Rose Red and Snow White

by Ruth Sanderson, Ruth Sanderson (Illustrator)

Overview

A beautiful retelling of the classic Brothers Grimm tale with lavish full-color oil paintings. New in paperback. Red Rose and Snow White are as different as two sisters can be. Even so, they get along and, together with their mother, make a cozy life in their cottage in the woods. Then one night, Rose Red answers a knock at the door and finds a huge shaggy bear who gruffly asks for a warm place to sleep! Although alarmed at first, mother and daughters alike are soon charmed by the bear and happily shelter him from winter nights. When spring arrives, the girls sadly watch their friend lumber off. Soon after he disappears, they make a new acquaintance. Was this the little man the bear warned them of before he left?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566569347
Publisher:	Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/15/2015
Series:	The Ruth Sanderson Collection
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 11.20(h) x 2.00(d)
Age Range:	2 - 3 Years

About the Author

Ruth Sanderson is the renowned illustrator and author of over 80 books for children. Her fairy tale retellings have been widely praised and much loved by children everywhere. Her original fairy tale, The Enchanted Wood, won both the Young Hoosier Award and the Bank Street College Award. The Texas Bluebonnet Award was given to her retelling of The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring. Her beautiful and ornate version of the classic fable Goldilocks is the latest addition to the collection.

Ruth Sanderson is the renowned illustrator and author of over 80 books for children. Her fairy tale retellings have been widely praised and much loved by children everywhere. Her original fairy tale, The Enchanted Wood, won both the Young Hoosier Award and the Bank Street College Award. The Texas Bluebonnet Award was given to her retelling of The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring. Her beautiful and ornate version of the classic fable Goldilocks is the latest addition to the collection.

Editorial Reviews

It always seems like sunset in this straightforward, amiable retelling of the Grimm fairy tale about two opposite but equally adorable sisters. Sanderson (Papa Gatto) uses rusty tones and a heavy hand with highlights, creating heroines whose warm coloring blends perfectly with the woods they roam in and with the firelit domesticity of their mother's neat cottage. This telling offers no departures from the original: the girls and their mother shelter a talking bear during the winter; the girls repeatedly rescue a snarling, ill-tempered dwarf; the bear slays the dwarf and is revealed as a prince. In Sanderson's pretty, traditional paintings he emerges in blond and golden glory, and later marries gentle homebody Snow White while his brother marries the more carefree, vivacious Rose Red. It's a pleasingly old-fashioned storybook edition of the classic tale; see Bernadette Watts's Snow White and Rose Red (see p. 77) for more childlike visuals and a crisp translation of the original. Ages 4-8. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

K-Gr 4This thematic distant cousin to "Beauty and the Beast" tells of two young beauties befriending a bear who is actually a prince under an evil spell. After they rescue an ungrateful dwarf three times, the girls witness the bear's assault on the dwarf and the prince's release from the spell. Cause and effect is a bit shaky in this tale, but the picture book is true to the Grimms. Unlike Snow White & Rose Red illustrated by Gennady Spirin (Philomel, 1992), this simplified retelling eliminates the Grimms' religious undertones. The smooth text, marred a bit by some careless grammar, is the basis for the illustrator's large oil paintings enhanced by pictorial grace notes on the text pages. Sanderson's strength lies in architecture and landscapes. The human beings, carefully and skillfully drawn from life, often seem stiff and out of place in their environments. The most successful beings here are the two sisters, sturdy little girls with a sweet energy, and the dwarf who is satisfyingly nasty. The language is too sophisticated for beginning readers, but the pictures give a solidity to this slight tale that makes it enjoyable for young listeners.Sally Margolis, formerly at Deerfield Public Library, IL

School Library Journal

"This faithful retelling of an original Grimm's fairy tale is enhanced by Sanderson's rich oil paintings."

From the Publisher

"This faithful retelling of an original Grimm's fairy tale is enhanced by Sanderson's rich oil paintings."

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