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Snow & Rose by [Emily Winfield Martin]

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Give the gift of this stunningly illustrated fairy-tale reimagining from the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of The Wonderful Things You Will Be this holiday season—sure to be a modern classic!

Snow and Rose didn’t know they were in a fairy tale. People never do. . . .

Once, they lived in a big house with spectacular gardens and an army of servants.

Once, they had a father and mother who loved them more than the sun and moon.

But that was before their father disappeared into the woods and their mother disappeared into sorrow.

This is the story of two sisters and the enchanted woods that have been waiting for them to break a set of terrible spells.

In Snow & Rose, bestselling author-illustrator Emily Winfield Martin retells the traditional but little-known fairy tale “Snow White and Rose Red.”The beautiful full-color illustrations throughout and unusual yet relatable characters will bring readers back to this book again and again.

“The deeper meanings of the [story] do emerge, but the pleasure . . . is paramount.” —The New York Times

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6 - 10 years, from customers
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213 pages
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English
Grade level

3 - 7
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0730
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Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication date

October 10, 2017
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"The writing is lyrical, with laudable word choice, alliteration, and imagery capturing the magic of the woods. For lovers of fairy tales, this story of sisterhood, taking risks, and being kind is a physically beautiful book with an appealing cover and captivating full-color illustrations."--Kirkus Reviews

"This moody fairy tale emphasizes family, friendship, and the powerful bond of sisterhood. Martin’s characterization of the two contrary sisters is especially moving." --Publishers Weekly

"Like most of the Grimm brothers’ tales, this peculiar story carries sinister overtones, but Martin does a nice job of keeping the dark atmosphere from overwhelming younger readers, largely though her whimsical touches."--Booklist

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Gr 3–7—This adaptation of "Snow White and Rose Red" makes the classic fairy tale accessible and intriguing for today's readers. Sisters Snow and Rose are daughters of a nobleman who disappeared under troubling circumstances. Forced to vacate their grand residence after their father's presumed death, the girls must now live in a humble forest cottage with their grieving mother. The sisters explore the forest, narrowly escape dangers, discover a peculiar library, repeatedly rescue the strange Little Man, and befriend a young boy named Ivo. Something truly evil lurks in these woods, however, which accounts for the tragically frequent disappearances of locals—perhaps even for their father's disappearance. Each chapter has a vignette feel to it; some of the particularly poignant chapters demonstrate with masterly gentleness how people deal with loss in different ways. Several single pages, interspersed throughout the narrative, recount the prophecies, observations, and dialogue of the forest trees. These pages insert a dark mysteriousness into the flow of the story. Lovely pencil and watercolor illustrations accompany the text, lending a wispy, dreamlike quality to the tale. The suspenseful, dramatic action doesn't really start building until the last quarter of the book, but readers will realize details have been quietly dropped throughout the entire narrative that contribute to the climax and conclusion. VERDICT A solid purchase for most mid-size libraries. Fairy-tale fans will delight in this fascinating spin on a lesser-known tale.—Sara White, Seminole County Public Library, Casselberry, FL --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

About the Author

Emily Winfield Martin is a collector and lover of fairy tales, and the original Grimm’s tale of Snow White and Rose Red enchanted and haunted her all her life. She is a painter of real and imaginary things, and the author and illustrator of such books as Dream Animals and The Wonderful Things You Will Be. Emily lives among the giant trees of Portland, Oregon, and if you need her, you might look in the heart of the woods. Visit her online at emilywinfieldmartin.com. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Once, there were two sisters.
Rose had hair like threads of black silk and cheeks like two red petals and a voice that was gentle and sometimes hard to hear. Snow had hair like white swan down and eyes the color of the winter sky, with a laugh that was sudden and wild.
They lived in a cottage in the woods, but it hadn’t always been so. “Tell me a story,” Snow called in the dark. She moved restlessly, wide awake in her bed.
“You’ll wake Mama,” Rose murmured. “Go back to sleep.”
Snow sat up, her bed creaking. “Rose?” Her whisper drifted in the dark. “Please?”
Their bedroom was a loft that lay above the hearth and kitchen and below a pointed ceiling. On one side were the sisters’ beds. On the other side was their mother’s bed. Rose peered through the gap in the faded screen that turned one small room into two very tiny ones. The blue light in the window showed the curve of their mother’s side rising and falling softly.
Rose sighed. “Okay, but I’ll come over there.” The hush of a match sounded as Rose lit the yellow beeswax stump between their beds, followed by a few soft tiptoed thumps as her feet padded across the floor. She climbed under the covers of Snow’s bed.
“Your feet are freezing,” Snow whispered.
Rose drew her knees up to her chest. “Which story do you want to hear?” Rose asked. Her dark hair glowed with glints of red and gold in the candle’s light. “The one about the magic lamp?”
“No,” Snow said, pulling the covers tightly around her shoulders. She smiled, her pale hair a messy tumble on the pillow.
“The mermaid and the monkey?” Rose asked.
“No,” Snow whispered impatiently. “Not that one.”
“Or the fairy tale about—”
“No, no fairy tales.” Snow tugged gently on the sleeve of Rose’s nightgown. “Tell the story of us.”
After another sigh, Rose began.
“Once upon a time,” Rose whispered in her best storyteller’s voice, “there were two girls, one with black hair and one with white. They were born to a nobleman who was as tall and as broad as he was gentle and kind. Their mother was from a common family, but she had a rare and delicate beauty, like—”
“Like a Siamese cat,” Snow offered.
“Yes, like a Siamese cat,” Rose continued softly. “And their mother was a painter and sculptor, who loved to wake up the things she said were asleep inside big slabs of marble, and her statues filled the sculpture garden. And their father loved to build places that didn’t exist until he imagined them. He loved to read about all the things that other people had imagined and built, so he had a library with shelves that reached to the ceiling.
“Their mother and father loved each other, too, of course, more than books or sculptures. But more than anything else, they loved their two daughters.
“And since love is something you cannot see, the mother and father tried their best to make an invisible thing visible. So when the girls were both still very small, their parents commissioned a spectacular garden, a wonder that people would come from miles and miles to see. Stretching the entire length of the house, this garden was like no garden that had ever existed or will ever exist again.
“Half of the garden was filled entirely with white flowers of every kind—with pale, delicate bells of lily of the valley, spires of vanilla foxgloves with speckled throats, climbing moonflower vines, and bright-eyed anemones, from the tiniest white daisy to ivory dahlias the size of dinner plates. And—”
“And it was called the Snow Garden,” Snow interrupted.
“And it was called the Snow Garden,” repeated Rose with a sad smile. “And the other half bloomed only in red: vermilion poppies and scarlet pansies and wine-colored snapdragons and Japanese lanterns the color of fire. And dozens and dozens of roses, each with a hundred red petals . . .”
Rose trailed off. She knew hearing the story made Snow happy; otherwise she wouldn’t ask for it all the time. But for Rose, in the telling of it, she was left with a hollow that grew with each word.
Rose knew her sister was the kind of person who wanted to see or hear or taste something she loved over and over again, to remind herself that it was real. Rose was another kind of person: she wanted to hold on to a thing she loved as tightly as she could. She wanted to keep it special and safe, for fear that it might get used up—or worse, that it might escape, like sand or sugar slipping between her fingers.
“You know a lot of words for red,” Snow whispered. Her eyes were closed. “Now tell about the swans.”
Rose looked at her sister’s face, a content pale moon in the dark.
Rose breathed in and pulled the quilt to her chest. She continued the story dutifully, her voice as low as she could make it, so low it was barely there. “And in the center of the Snow Garden and the Rose Garden was a pond ringed with willows, and tracing circles on the water were two swans, one white with a dark golden beak, and the other coal black with a beak of the brightest red.
“And this is where the girls were born, the place they grew up. This is where they had closets stuffed with dozens of beautiful dresses, where their porcelain dolls had so many lovely things to wear they needed closets of their own. This is where they had an extremely fat cat named Earl Grey, and where they had their lessons and acted out plays and had their tea. And when they played hide-and-seek, Snow would always hide in the sculpture garden and Rose would always hide in the library, so it wasn’t even that good a game. . . .”
Rose looked down to see if Snow was awake. Her sister’s eyelids fluttered, but she didn’t seem to notice that the story had stopped.
Rose went on, her voice even softer than before, as quiet as a breath. “And at night, this is where they were tucked into big brass beds wrought with flowers and birds, and where their father would read them to sleep or tell them stories about magic lamps and dragons and faraway places. . . .”
Gently, Rose climbed out of the warm covers and tucked them around Snow’s shoulders. “As their mother put out the lights, their father would say, ‘Go to sleep, my only Snow. Go to sleep, my only Rose.’”
She made her way back to her own bed and snuffed out the candle.
“The end.” --This text refers to the paperback edition.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N7V2HM0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (October 10, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 10, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 35872 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 213 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled

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Emily Winfield Martin makes paintings, books and other things. When she was small, she spent every moment drawing, reading, dressing rabbits in fancy clothes, and having many peculiar daydreams. When she grew up, she began to illustrate those daydreams and she created a cottage industry called The Black Apple, which sells all manner of her art and etceteras.

She works in a tiny nook of a studio filled with old children's books, wind-up toys, and stacks of fabric. She lives in Portland, Or.

You can visit her at www.emilywinfieldmartin.com

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But this was NOT a case of good cover/bad book

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2018

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For Middle-Grade March I selected a couple of books based on reviews, personal recs, and maybe for the covers alone. This one was for the cover alone. But this was NOT a case of good cover/bad book. Not by a long shot.

This was one of those books that you didn't now you needed. It is a retelling of Snow White and Rose Red, two young sisters who are forced to move to a cottage in the woods after their father goes missing. As their mother grows more distant by the day, succumbing to her grief, the two venture off into the woods in search of adventure. And sometimes adventure just seems to find them. They befriend a boy who lives underground and come into contact with wolves, a bear, thieves and even a little man who seems to need rescuing over and over again.

I have no read the original Grimm tale so I am not sure how closely resembling it this book is, but I can say there was certainly magic on every page and it the anticipation of seeing the wonderful illustrations kept me up long after my bedtime. I dare to say that there was even magic in the very pages. I felt like a kid again.

Martin's writing is both magical and breezy. This is not a long book, clocking in at just over 200 pages. The girls are well fleshed out with individual personalities. I recommend this to anyone looking for fairy tales or simply something to get you out of that book slump. I highly recommend it to anybody with kids as they will find it as beautiful as I did.

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A lovely adventure

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2020

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I eyed this book for years, but was concerned it would be too scary for my daughter. Now that she is on the verge of eight I finally bought it. I plowed through it in about 3 days and then my daughter and I read it together in 2 days. It was such a perfect adventure for a little girl--not too scary, interesting, brave female characters, and a wonderful and fast moving plot. We loved it. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous and add to the story.

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A delightful and lovely tale

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2020

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This was such a delightful and fun modern twist on an enchanting tale about sisterly love. Just the right amount of magic and a little suspence to keep it from being completely predictable. I thoroughly enjoyed this, and think it is perfect for 8-12 year olds to read on their own. It could be read aloud to youngers. The book itself is beautiful with occasional illustrations. Highly recommended!

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2020

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This magical retelling of the Snow White and Rose Red story is captivating! We can't stop reading it! Emily Winfield Martin is wonderful. My daughters started reading this from the library when they were 9 and 11. We borrowed it for so many weeks that we finally bought our own copy. Now they're 11 and 13 and they still keep reading it!

I give this book all the stars, such an amazing story, and art.

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2018

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This was the first book we have consistently read until finish, with my 7yo and 4yo. They both absolutely, heck me included, LOVED this book. I wasn't sure what to expect other than incredible art, as we have read a few of EWM's books before. From the art, to the characters and their details, she does a great job at making it easy to picture the story as you read, and truly feel like you know the characters, but never being able to expect what happens. We read a chapter a night until we finished it, and were super sad once it was over. We would LOVE a sequel, even though the book doesn't leave you being able to wonder what happened next, or there is no cliffhanger. It all flows so smoothly, and keeps you wanting to read more without those awful cliffhangers that digital media uses. I could go on and on but bottom line, highly recommend this book, so much that we might just reread it!

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Patricia Soltysiak

Pure enjoyment!

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2021

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My grands loved this book. It's a riff on a classic fairytale,beautiful to look at and hold. The illustrations were that bit extra that made the whole purchase worthwhile.

Wonderful fairy tale!

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019

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I am giving this book to my 8-year-old granddaughter for Christmas. Since there were a few negative reviews, I decided to read it myself. I have to say that I absolutely loved it. I have a sister and we were always having make believe adventures together as kids. The descriptions made the scenes come alive in my imagination. I felt the emotions of the girls and their mother and I fell in love with the bear. If you enjoy fairy tales, I think you will enjoy this book!

Such a beautiful story

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2021

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This is honestly such a good book. The story is lovely and the pictures are gorgeous! I love the aesthetic of this book so much!

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There is one plot hole with the whole hunter killing the large animals which turn out to be people though... that never gets addressed.

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J.O

Perfect condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2022

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Bought as a gift, really happy with it. Arrived quickly and is in perfect condition!!

harlequinn55

Nice keepsake book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2020

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Love the book. Sadly I ordered the hardback and received the paperback from a seller which was a shame as this is a lovely keepsake book. Returning was a bit of a faff so kept it. The book itself is wonderful and the illustrations are beautiful :)

R H TAYLOR

Good story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2021

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Great book to read enjoyed reading it

chumee

Beautiful book

Reviewed in India on June 7, 2019

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This book has artwork and imagery in it, which is just beautiful. It really takes it to another level and makes the book a perfect keepsake.
The story is really nice, though as an adult reading it, I felt it was a little abrupt at times. Maybe it works for a young pre-teen or tween girl, who is the target reader. I bought it for a favorite niece.
All in all, the hardcover version is a good buy, and a great gift.

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Really WOW!!!

Reviewed in India on November 2, 2020

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The only word that came into my mind when this arrived was ‘ BEAUTIFUL’....
This is the most beautiful hardcover book I have ever seen. The first and last pages and the colourful illustrations are amazing and also the story is very good . Go for it..

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