I'd never heard of the Grimm brothers version of Snow White, I grew up only knowing the Disney version. I liked the Disney version better, in this one I thought Snow White was really dumb. Unlike in the Disney version, she let her stepmother fool her THREE times, and almost kill her each time. Honestly at that point it's natural selection, I was shocked that she didn't die forever in this story. I thought the differences between the two were interesting, and I really enjoyed thinking of all of the similarities and differences while reading the book. ( )

This picture book wasn’t the Snow White Version I was expecting or used to hearing. On page 3, the queen hires a hitman for her 7 year old step daughter and demands the lung and liver as proof. He lets the girl go and gives the queen instead the lung and liver of a boar, which the queen then eats. Thinking’s it’s her step daughter’s lung and liver, she eats it with enjoyment. That kind of blew me away. Snow White is also not poisoned by an apple right away, but instead the queen disguised herself as an old lady and laces snow whites girdle so tight, she faints from lack of oxygen. When that doesn’t kill her, she then poisons the apple and gives it to her. And then the story goes pretty much as expected with the prince rescuing her. I’ve noticed a recurring theme in some of these fairy tales is that the mom dies, the step mother shows up, but she’s always “proud, haughty, and jealous” of the step daughters and treat them horribly. And these poor girls seem to always be a serve to to someone. Cinderella and in this story, a 7 year old Snow White is taking care of 7 dwarf men. Then they’re rescued by a prince because they put up with servitude so selflessly. The stories themselves are good, but it just seems like the same plot over and over. ( )

I would use this book in a third or fourth grade due to the fact of it being a little harder of a read than the cartoon version of the book. But i feel like at that age they would be able to read this independently with little help.

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I would use this book in a 2nd/3rd grade setting. I would use it with this age range because of the content of the book being targeted towards the different types of people and the sensitivity of fantasy books. I would use this book for many different lessons which could include teaching students the importance of knowing and understanding the differences amongst people, but the main lesson that I would use with this book would be lessons on comparing and contrasting the different dwarfs with character webs. I would use the webs to describe each dwarf and from there have the students relate to one of the dwarfs. Once the students decided on a dwarf that they had a connection with, I would have a compare and contrast list on the board for the students to discuss the characteristics of each dwarf and compare/contrast them amongst the others. ( )