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What happens when a mirror tells the truth and a queen cannot bear to hear it?
In Snowdrop, also known as Snow White, a young princess faces her stepmother’s jealousy. The Queen asks her magic mirror who is fairest, and its honest answer puts the child in danger. Alone in the forest, Snowdrop searches for safety among huge trees, sharp stones and watchful wild animals.
Snowdrop & Other Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm opens a world of magic, courage and danger. Alongside the title tale, the companion stories lead into woods and homes under strain, where poor youngest sons, clever animals and small people with strange powers face sharp choices. The plots move quickly, and good and evil stand clearly apart.
What you’ll discover
- A wish in winter Enter the title tale through falling snow, a sewing queen and a black ebony window frame.
- Truth that stirs jealousy Meet a mirror whose honest answers feed the Queen’s anger and threaten Snowdrop’s safety.
- Mercy against obedience Follow the Huntsman as he faces a choice between carrying out orders and showing mercy.
- Shelter with a warning Discover the dwarfs’ cottage, where refuge comes with warnings that danger may still find Snowdrop.
- Old tales, sharp choices Explore simply told stories where courage, magic and clear moral choices give each turn its force.
Who will love it
For readers who enjoy fairy tales told simply, parents and teachers looking for tales to share aloud, and anyone curious about the roots of familiar fairy tales.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A wish in the snow begins everything
- A mirror that cannot lie sets the trap
- A frightened girl finds shelter in the woods
- The danger does not stay far away
- The other tales share a world of woods and tests
- Plain voice, patterns of three and a clear moral shape
Who’s who
- SnowdropA kind young princess, born from a wish, whose beauty rouses her stepmother's jealousy and who must find safety in the forest.
- The QueenSnowdrop's proud stepmother, who cannot bear to be second to anyone in beauty and asks her mirror for the truth each day.
- The Magic MirrorThe queen's mirror, which always answers honestly when asked who is fairest in the land.
- The HuntsmanA servant ordered to take Snowdrop into the forest, who must choose between obedience and mercy.
- The Seven DwarfsSmall miners who live in a cottage in the mountains and take Snowdrop in if she will keep their house.
- The KingSnowdrop's father, who marries again after the first queen dies and gives the new queen her place in the castle.
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Snowdrop & Other Tales
A mirror that cannot lie rouses a queen's jealousy, and Snowdrop must find safety in the forest.
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Snowdrop and Other Tales gathers fairy tales from the collection made by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, two German scholars of language and folklore. They published their first volume of Children's and Household Tales in 1812 and kept revising it for decades.
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A wish in the snow begins everything
The title tale opens in the middle of winter, while snowflakes fall like feathers from the sky. A queen sits sewing at a window with a frame of black ebony wood. She pricks her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fall onto the snow. The red looks so lovely against the white that she sighs and makes a wish.
She wishes for a child as white as snow, as red as blood and as black as the wood of the window frame. The wish is granted, and a daughter is born with skin, lips and hair of those three colors. The girl is called Snowdrop, and many readers know her as Snow White.
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What is Snowdrop by the Brothers Grimm about?
It is the tale known elsewhere as Snow White. A girl born from her mother's wish is hated by a vain stepmother whose mirror names Snowdrop the fairest, and she finds shelter with seven dwarfs in the forest.
Is Snowdrop the same story as Snow White?
Yes. Snow White is the usual modern title for the same Grimm tale, while Snowdrop is a name some English translators gave her. The main people and events are the same.
Are the Grimm fairy tales true stories?
No, they are folk tales. The Grimms collected and shaped stories told in German-speaking lands, publishing the first volume in 1812 and revising the collection until 1857. They are not records of real events.
The author
Jacob Grimm
1785–1863 · German folklorist and philologist
Jacob Grimm was born in Hanau, Germany, in 1785 and died in Berlin in 1863. He was a linguist, jurist and mythologist. With his brother Wilhelm, he published fairy tales from 1812 and German Legends in 1816–1818. He also wrote German Grammar and worked on a German dictionary.
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