Snow White (First Edition): The Original Brothers Grimm Fairytale
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest one of all?"Undoubtedly the most famous of the Brothers Grimm fairytales, Snow White is the story of a girl - as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony - who is the victim of her mother, the jealous Queen, but with the help of seven...
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"Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest one of all?"Undoubtedly the most famous of the Brothers Grimm fairytales, Snow White is the story of a girl - as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony - who is the victim of her mother, the jealous Queen, but with the help of seven dwarfs she just might be able to live happily ever after ...In this new translation, the author brings back to life the original version of 'Snow White', from the first edition of the Brothers Grimm's 'Children and Household Tales', for an English readership.[Folklore Type: ATU-709 (Snow White)]
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00O6YH21Q
Publish date: 2014-10-04
Publisher: Blackdown Publications
Pages no: 19
Edition language: English
Benjamin Lacombe is easily one of my favorite living illustrators, and in this I really liked his use of darker colors and blood red. I thought it was effective colors for a snow white tale.
I hadn't read the Brothers Grimm version of Snow White until today. I enjoyed it albeit being very different from the Disney version. However, what makes this book exquisite are the illustrations by Camille Rose Garcia. They are beyond words, in my opinion. The dust jacket as well as the outside of ...
The pictures in this book are AMAZING!
I was of course aware of the Disney's Snow White, but had yet to read the Grimm brothers version. However I bought and read this purely for the pleasure of looking at the amazing illustrations from this book. To put it simply: it is beautiful. The illustrations and typography are amazing, gorgeous a...