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Title: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Joan Aiken, Belinda Downes ISBN: 0-7894-8799-3 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Much too highly adapted
Comment: The illustrations are okay, but this adaptation strays too far from the original story. She gives the dwarves silly names, worse than Disney, Fred and Ted--good grief. And naming the dwarves serves no purpose. The ending is totally made up. In Snow White, there is no shattered mirror, no enchanter who reclaims it, if you want to write your own story do so--why muck with the fairy tales.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautifully-Told and Beautifully-Illustrated
Comment: One can always trust the talents of Joan Aiken to put a fresh spin on an enduring classic. It's wonderful to read a version of the Snow White story in which the heroine is not pure sappiness personified, where the wicked queen is not simply the embodiment of all that is evil, where the magic mirror has something of a sarcastic attitude, and where so many little details of the story, long taken for granted, are actually EXPLAINED: why the queen has these magical powers, how she acquired the mirror, how the huntsman handled his deception, what the dwarves' names were, where the charming prince lived...And the embroidered illustrations are, just simply, magical---the detail and cleverness will hold the attention of any squirming small child. I can't wait to read this aloud to my niece and nephew, and show them the wonderful pictures.
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW! What exceptional talent!! A beautiful picture book.
Comment: All I can say is WOW! It may be hard to tell from the picture, but all of the illustrations in this book are actually very beautiful, very intricate embroidery work. It's unbelievable and very exquisite when you see it in person. ALso look at her other kids book, The Starlight Princess -- Amazon's so great with the ability to see inside of the book and you can see inside the Starlight Princess to see better detail of Belinda Downes' exceptional work. What brilliant illustrations!! Cannot say enough!!
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Title: Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs by Randall Jarrell, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Nancy Eckholm Burkert ISBN: 0374468680 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 November, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Laura Ljungkvist ISBN: 0810942410 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Snow White in New York by Fiona French ISBN: 0192722107 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1990 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Snow White by Paul Heins, Trina Schart Hyman ISBN: 0606198458 Publisher: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Sleeping Beauty by Mahlon F. Craft, Kinuko Craft ISBN: 1587171201 Publisher: SeaStar Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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