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    Snow-White and Rose-Red

    By The Brothers Grimm

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    Snow-White, fair-haired, quiet and shy, and Rose-Red, dark-haired, outspoken and lively, are two little girls living with their mother in a small cottage by the woods. They give shelter on a winter night to a kindly bear, who treats them gently and returns every night. In the summer, the girls encounter a wicked dwarf whose beard is stuck in a tree. Freeing the dwarf, the girls are met with loud ungrateful recriminations for cutting his beard. More episodes of rescuing the dwarf from various perils transpire in a similar fashion. In the end, the bear comes to aid of the girls.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateOct 17, 2017
    ISBN9781974995776
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    The Brothers Grimm

    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born during the 1780s in Hanau, Germany, and studied law at Marburg university. After leaving education, they worked as diplomats and librarians in Kassel. In 1837 they were dismissed from their professorships at the University of Göttingen for refusing to swear allegiance to the new King of Hanover, but were later invited to join the Academy in Berlin, by Frederick William IV of Prussia, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Individually, and as a collaborative team, the brothers were two of the greatest scholars that Germany has produced. Aside from their folktales, they produced many different volumes of research, as well as anthologies of verse and song, and two of Germany's most important linguistic texts, the Deutsche Grammatik (German grammar) and the Deutsche Wörterbuch (German dictionary). Wilhelm died in 1859, at the age of 73, and Jacob died in 1863, at the age of 78.

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    • 5/5
      Snow-White and Rose-Red tells the story of Snow White and Rose Red, two girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage. Both sisters are very good little girls, and they love each other dearly. Their mother is very fond of them. As for their personalities, Rose Red is very outspoken and cheerful, and loves to play outside; on the other hand, her sister Snow-White is more quiet and shy, and prefers doing housework and reading.

      One winter night, there is a knock at the door. Rose Red opens the door to find a bear. At first she is terrified, but the bear tells her not to be afraid. "I'm half frozen and I merely want to warm up a little at your place," he says. They let the bear in and it lies down in front of the fire. Snow White and Rose Red beat the snow off the bear, and continue hitting him with hazel switches; they quickly become quite friendly with it. They play with the bear and roll him around playfully whipping him until the bear warns them, "Leave me my life, you children, Snow-white and Rose-red, Or you'll never wed."

      They let the bear spend the night in front of the fire, and in the morning, he leaves, trotting out into the woods. The bear comes back every night for the rest of that winter and the family grows used to him. When summer comes, the bear tells them that he must go away for a while to guard his treasure from a wicked dwarf. During the summer the girls are walking through the forest, when they find a dwarf who has his beard stuck in a tree. The girls rescue him by cutting his beard free, but the dwarf is ungrateful, and yells at the girls for cutting his beautiful beard. The girls encounter the dwarf several times that summer, rescue him from some peril, and each time the dwarf is ungrateful.

      Then one day they meet the dwarf once again; this time he is terrified because the bear is about to kill him. The dwarf pleads with the bear, begs it to eat the girls instead of him, but the bear pays no heed and kills the dwarf with one swipe of his paw. Then the bear turns into a prince; the dwarf had bewitched the prince by stealing his gold and turning him into a bear, but the curse is broken with the death of the dwarf. Snow White marries the prince and Rose Red marries his brother.
    • 3/5
      This book is not what I expected. Based on the title you would think that the Disney Character of Snow white was in there somewhere. She's not. A completely different Snow White. I was also trying to figure out what Rose Red was, and as it turns out, Rose Red is Snow White's Sister.This book has all of the typical Fairytale formulas. The two sisters were innocent and compassionate. Their mother was compassionate. There was magic as the Bear that they ran into was more than he seemed. There was the happy ending as well.On the surface, this is a happy little tale with mystery and intrigue and any little girl would probably love their mom or dad to read this story to them as a bed time story. The print is rather smallish so I would find it difficult for the intended target audience to try to read this book on their own.But I know how I was as a kid. And if this story were read to me, I would have a ton of questions at the end, simply because it was sort of incomplete, or better put, the Author seemed to be running out of time and needed to end the story quickly.The Bear they encountered was really a Prince who was cursed with a magic spell cast on him by an evil dwarf. Political correctness goes right out the window as the antagonist of this book turns out to be an evil Dwarf. A Dwarf who is as clumsy as he is stupid. Snow White and Rose Red end up rescuing the ungrateful Dwarf throughout that story....so this would be the first problem I have with the story. He is so stupid and inattentive that the mere thought of casting a complicated spell that turns a man into a bear is beyond comprehension. That's the first inconsistency within the story.Throughout the book Snow White and her sister Rose Red are set as equal protagonists. That is, until the end. The "Hurry Up" Ending where Snow White is the one that gets to marry the Prince and Rose Red gets to marry the Prince's Brother, who you know nothing about because he was introduced in the last sentence of the book. More inconsistencies in this book.You have no idea what ended up happening to Snow White's and Rose Red's mother. You can assume that she just lived by herself in the old cottage but, nothing is detailed.Oh, and there was murder. The Bear killed the mean old Dwarf. Probably because that's what we do to mean and evil right? We kill it whenever possible. And then we are all surprised when later in life we glorify vigilantism. We sit there and wonder, where did this all begin? How have we come to accept a vigilante as normal behavior? Well, there you have it. It starts at about 4 or 5 years of age when parents read children this book. Remember, kids take things very literally at times.So this is why I gave this book a little better than average score. It's a good story. But I felt it could have been told better.
    • 4/5
      This review is for "Snow White and Rose Red: A Pop-Up Fairy Tale" by Brothers Grimm and illustrated by Rachel CloyneFairy tales are a great favorite of mine, and I especially love the illustrations in this lovely book. Completely done in black and white with red as the only other color, the effect is stunning and lends an otherworldly aspect to the traditional tale. One minor complaint, most of the pop ups do not stand up well, some need to be held up with your hand to view them completely (hence 3 1/2 stars). My favorite spread in this pop-up book is the first, a view of the girls cottage from the forest, it's just lovely.
    • 5/5
      The illustrations in this book are beautiful. I was never able to find this book in print when I was younger but I rented it from the library frequently and loved the idea of Snow White having a sister named Rose Red and their subsequent adventure finding their prince charmings. This is the most beautiful fairy tale picture book!
    • 4/5
      A beautifully illustrated version of Snow White and Rose Red that stays true to the original Grimm story.