Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs (Sunburst Book)

Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs (Sunburst Book)
by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm K. Grimm, Nancy Eckholm Burkert

Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs (Sunburst Book)
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Book Summary Information

Author: Jacob Grimm, Nancy Eckholm Burkert, Wilhelm K. Grimm
Brand: Spring Arbor/Ingram
Illustrator: Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Translator: Randall Jarrell
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-11-01
ISBN: 0374468680
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: Square Fish
Product features:
  • Beautiful Illustrations
  • Classic Retold Story
  • Lovely Book
  • Extra Large Paperback~ Larger PICTURES!

Book Reviews of Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs (Sunburst Book)

Book Review: A Treasure
Summary: 5 Stars

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
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Summary of Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs (Sunburst Book)

Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was as black as ebony.

"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 huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her "lung and liver as a token." Thus begins another enchanting fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm!

Kirkus Reviews called this collaboration between Randall and Nancy Eckholm Burkert "a sort of legend even before its time of publication." Jarrell also wrote The Bat-Poet and The Animal Family, a Newbery Honor Book. Jarrell retained the Grimm (and grim) ending to the tale, as the stepmother is forced to dance to her death. Burkert's illustrations are magical, light-filled creations that more than earn the book its Caldecott Honor Book status. This delightful book's extra-large format showcases the fabulously detailed illustrations, alternating two facing pages of art with two pages of straight text. This is an unforgettable interpretation of a well-loved story. (Ages 6 to 9)

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