One day, when the Queen asks the magic mirror, the mirror replies that Snow White is the fairest of all. However, as years pass and Snow White grows into a beautiful young girl, the Queen becomes jealous. Every day, The Queen asks, “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?” The mirror always responds that the Queen is the fairest of all. Her most valuable possession is a magic mirror. Though very beautiful, his new wife is vain and wicked. A year later, Snow White’s father, the King, remarries. Suffering complications during childbirth, the Queen dies. Later, the queen gives birth to a princess whom she names Snow White. The queen wishes she had a daughter with skin as white as snow and lips as red as blood. Piercing her finger with the needle, three drops of blood fall atop white snow on the sill. A queen peers out of the window while sewing. Republished many times, including in 1999, 2004, and 2013, Publishers Weekly called the picture book a “stunning version of the Grimms’ classic story” Book Links opined, "The pen-and-ink drawings are treasures, loaded with details." Narrated in the omniscient third-person perspective, the story begins during winter in a faraway castle.
In 1939, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was named a Caldecott Medal Honor Book. Gag’s version was written in response to the film adaptation produced by Walt Disney. Snow White, a classic Brothers Grimm fairytale translated from the German with a twist, American author Wanda Gag’s version, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938), is beautifully illustrated with her black and white line drawings.
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