Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Wanda Gág

Snow White is poisoned and appears to die the dwarfs fashion a glass casket and place her inside. She travels to the glen and convinces Snow White to eat an apple that she has secretly poisoned, despite protestations from the dwarfs. Later, when the evil queen asks her magic mirror, 'Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, Who's the fairest one of all?' the mirror answers 'Thou art very fair, Oh Queen, But the fairest ever seen Dwells within the wooded glen With the seven little men.' Angered, the queen dresses in rags and paints her face to conceal her identity. They agree to let her stay if she becomes their house keeper. Snow White falls asleep on one of the little beds and is later awoken by seven dwarfs. Snow White runs until she discovers a small wooden hut, inside of which are found objects in centuplicate. The huntsman agrees and brings a wild boar heart to the queen as a token. Once in the woods, Snow White pleads with the huntsmen not to hurt her, assuring him that she'll run away and never return. With fury the queen demands a huntsman to take Snow White into the woods, kill her, and bring back a token as proof of her death. Description Ī queen, used to being 'the fairest one of all', is turned green with envy when her magic mirror says that her seven-year-old stepdaughter, Snow White, is now the fairest one of all.

The cover depicts a young girl with black hair looking out the window of a small red house.

Gag translated the text from the German and designed the illustrations. Since then it has been republished several times, including in 1999, 2004, and 2013.Īfter the success of Walt Disney's film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, author Anne Carroll Moore suggested that Gág retell the story of Snow White in a manner more faithful to the original Brothers Grimm story. The book is a twist on the classic tale of Snow White by the Brothers Grimm. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was a Caldecott Medal Honor Book in 1939. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1938 picture book written and illustrated by Wanda Gág and published by Coward-McCann.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Wanda Gág