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Snow White and Rose Red
Snow-White and Rose-Red is a traditional German fairy tale. The best-known version is the one collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage by the woods. Snow-White is quiet and shy and prefers to spend her time indoors, doing housework and reading. Rose-Red is outspoken, lively and cheerful, and prefers to be outside. They are both very good girls who love each other and their mother dearly, and their mother is very fond of them as well.
One winter night, a strange visitor knocks on their door, and what happens next will forever change their lives...
Note: This story is not related to the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow White that provided the basis for the 1937 Walt Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage by the woods. Snow-White is quiet and shy and prefers to spend her time indoors, doing housework and reading. Rose-Red is outspoken, lively and cheerful, and prefers to be outside. They are both very good girls who love each other and their mother dearly, and their mother is very fond of them as well.
One winter night, a strange visitor knocks on their door, and what happens next will forever change their lives...
Note: This story is not related to the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow White that provided the basis for the 1937 Walt Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
9 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1827
About the author
Jacob Grimm
5,074 books2,076 followersGerman philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as
Grimm's Fairy Tales
(1812-1815).
Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.
This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .
Adapted from Wikipedia.
Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.
This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .
Adapted from Wikipedia.
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November 8, 2022
This edition with illustrations by Adrienne Adams had a nice enough style but is utterly unremarkable and forgettable. The girls look too much like young children, which makes the marriage by the end awkward. Not a rendition I'd care to recommend.
July 20, 2023
(Included in the Blue Fairy Book)
A quite different Snow White than the one who had to deal with seven dwarves - as an aside, for those who like graphic novels and fantasy, i recommend Fables, a retelling/mashup of various fairy tales, and the two Snow Whites are the same person in there - but it's still an enjoyable one about doing kindnesses for others.
A quite different Snow White than the one who had to deal with seven dwarves - as an aside, for those who like graphic novels and fantasy, i recommend Fables, a retelling/mashup of various fairy tales, and the two Snow Whites are the same person in there - but it's still an enjoyable one about doing kindnesses for others.
November 8, 2022
This lovely fairy tale's been steadily growing on me, both because of the plot with the sisterly love and partnership free of rivalry and bickering, rare for a fairy tale, and for the gorgeous art I'm finding for it.
This edition has illustrations by James Weren, who has a very nice style, very colourful and child-friendly, although I found the dwarf too cartoonish in relation to everyone else. It's not the best picture book for this tale, but it keeps the story unaltered, which makes it good as an introductory book for young children to the tale.
This edition has illustrations by James Weren, who has a very nice style, very colourful and child-friendly, although I found the dwarf too cartoonish in relation to everyone else. It's not the best picture book for this tale, but it keeps the story unaltered, which makes it good as an introductory book for young children to the tale.
December 2, 2022
So many memories with this book, I can feel the nostalgia. The tale includes the little boy (angel) at the beginning, sometimes excluded. I love it that the girls have the roses of their given name on their hair and they are dressed the same. I always imagined that they were twins when I was little. There are a few different illustrated versions of this tale by Vera Southgate and I remember each one.
May 17, 2017
I enjoyed this fairytale! It was fairly short and not particularly eventful, considering it was by the Grimm Brothers, but it was very cute and it tied up as every fairytale does. :)
February 21, 2014
This is not to be confused with the well known fairytale Snow White. This Snow White lives with her mother and sister in the forest and is visited, one night, by a bear. The story also includes a dwarf, a treasure, and, of course, the royal element which is always present in a fairytale. All these components should be enough to make something amazing, like so many of the Grimm's fairytales, but somehow, I didn't get that feeling. I had expected something more, perhaps a message. Unfortunately, it just serves to preserve the folklore.
February 20, 2017
I did not remember very much if this fairy tale in particular and it was nice to read it again.
January 16, 2023
Faithful but ultimately boring adaptation of the Grimms' tale, that spends too much time on little inconsequential details that only pad up the book with more pages (the arranging of flowers, for example, and artwork that anthropomorphises the bear a tad much, to the point it looks like a Teddy bear on two feet instead of the actual bear he is supposed to look like, and also chose to make Rose Red a black-haired girl ignored this adaptation's own text that says the girls are like the rosebushes outside their cottage, white and red, which has always been interpreted to be a blond and a redhead since the oldest illustrations for this tale.
A pretty average and forgettable edition, there's versions with more fetching artwork out there.
A pretty average and forgettable edition, there's versions with more fetching artwork out there.
January 27, 2019
I saw this one at the library today and I had some childhood nostalgia flood over me. I loved this book as a little girl. The mean old dwarf always creeped me out but I was ok because I knew the happy ending was coming. ( This is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale: 1965 edition.)
June 5, 2022
It Bought back lovely memories reading this just like old times.
August 3, 2021
This rating is for the version illustrated by Adrienne Adams.
October 12, 2012
Notes:
Barbara Cooney illustrations are lovely
story is beautifully told
Barbara Cooney illustrations are lovely
story is beautifully told
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November 30, 2012Next thing you know they'll have Sky Blue. And then maybe Grass Green.
February 8, 2017
This short story confused me quite a bit - until I realised that this Snow-White has nothing to do with the Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Whoops!
July 15, 2017
An enjoyable short fairytale. Not to be confused with the other Snow White.
I read this book as it's part of the 'Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge'.
I read this book as it's part of the 'Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge'.
June 21, 2020
Lovely edition by Adrienne Adams, one I'd not seen before.
October 2, 2017
Snow-White and Rose-Red is a story that most people have heard of in their lives. I grew up reading this in a lot of magazines I had as a child, and have read this countless time, all of them different versions, all of them with different characters as the main girls, and a lot of them with different endings.
Reading the original text of this really made me smile. It was nice to find out what actually happened in this story, after so many different endings, and to see why this is a pretty popular Brothers Grimm story. This was a story I enjoyed immensely and I find that it didn't end as roughly as a lot of Brothers Grimm stories do. This was a delectable read, and one of the stories I will definitely be reading again. Absolutely wonderful. A definite recommendation from me.
Reading the original text of this really made me smile. It was nice to find out what actually happened in this story, after so many different endings, and to see why this is a pretty popular Brothers Grimm story. This was a story I enjoyed immensely and I find that it didn't end as roughly as a lot of Brothers Grimm stories do. This was a delectable read, and one of the stories I will definitely be reading again. Absolutely wonderful. A definite recommendation from me.
August 20, 2023
I thought I had read most of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales but I can't ever remember reading this one.
Snow White and Rose Red are sisters who help their mother (a rarity that children have a mother), and play in the woods.
I really loved this short fairy tale and the fact that the girls were helpful and were rewarded even though they did what they did because they were trying to be helpful.
Snow White and Rose Red are sisters who help their mother (a rarity that children have a mother), and play in the woods.
I really loved this short fairy tale and the fact that the girls were helpful and were rewarded even though they did what they did because they were trying to be helpful.
December 1, 2017
Sisters are doing it for themselves
October 22, 2018
Surprisingly tame for the Brothers Grimm. Enjoyable just the same.
January 10, 2021
Lovely short story about Snow White and her sister Rose Red and a bear that is robbed by a dwarf and becomes a prince after all. Very different from the classic Snow White.
December 25, 2018
¡Hola Criaturas! ¡Feliz Navidad! ^^
Este es uno de mis cuentos preferidos. Me encanta la historia de Blancanieve y Rojaflor. Si no la conocéis, os la recomiendo muchísimo. ^^
Este es uno de mis cuentos preferidos. Me encanta la historia de Blancanieve y Rojaflor. Si no la conocéis, os la recomiendo muchísimo. ^^
February 26, 2012
This story is the definition of a classical fairytale. Though I never read this book as a child or even heard of it, when I did read it I knew this would be one of my many favorite books I would keep at home. It had all the elements of a great story, an introduction, a antagonist, and a love story. though there was no real conflict for the girls other than the Dwarf being mean to them it still was a cause for the a great story. I'm only a little confused on if this story is what happened before the classic Snow White story, because at the end of this story the two girls marry princes and become princesses, but in the classic Snow White story she was a princess because her father was a deceased king. The Grimm Brothers did a good job writing this story!
November 8, 2014
One day, two sisters, Snow White and Rose Red, and their mother let a big bear come to their house to get warm because outside winter was to crude. When spring came along, the bear departure to his home to take care of his treasure. The two sister meanwhile, encounter with a mean dwarf. They help him to get loose from his troubles, but the dwarf didn' thank the girls for the help. One day, the girls find the dwarf's treasure, and he gets mad with them. At that moment, the big bear appeared and scared the dwarf away. The two girls were so greatful to see the bear, but the animal suddenly lose his fur and transform himself into a beautiful young prince. Happily, the girls married the prince and his brother, and the mother goes to live with them at the castle.
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February 1, 2021
Getting ready to read a novel inspired by this tale, so i wanted to refamiliarize myself with it. I like it. There's a talking bear with treasure, a foul dwarf in need of some comeuppance, and the girls are positive and helpful in dealing with both. Looking forward to seeing how Emily Winfield Martin expands their story.
April 16, 2012
This version of Snow White is much kinder and gentler (and therefore much more suited for children) than the Disney version based on the evil queen. Yes, I did miss "Mirror, mirror on the wall . . .", but the story of Snow White, her sister Rose Red, the ONE dwarf and the prince trapped in the body of a bear, along with Barbara Cooney's illustrations, more than made up for it. If I had the time, I would love to research how one story could be so different, yet still all be attributed to the Brothers Grimm.
April 28, 2014
I like this story better than the Grimm Brothers Rapunzel which I also recently read(both are on a book list/challenge I've decided to tackle) this one flowed better and I like the story telling better, unlike Rapunzel I had know idea of any details in this story, maybe that's why I enjoyed it more? It sends a better message than Rapunzel that's for sure, it teaches that you should always be kind and use manners.
December 12, 2013
Ok, number 1, this Snow White has nothing to do with the famous Snow White, other then sharing a name with her...unless this one predates the one from history, before the death of the mother, that was unclear. You really have to read it like Snow White is a complete stranger to you, because in this book, she is.
June 17, 2017
I loved Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales when I was a child, and now when I see them I snap them up (my own copies didn't survive into adulthood with me). The stories are sometimes a bit naff, but for me it was always the pictures that fascinated me. I still like them. :)
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September 6, 2016Snow White and the Red Rose was a great version to snow white. This book had the dwarf who was very ungrateful. Snow White cuts his beard and he is ungrateful. There was a bear that turned into a prince that she marries
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