This book offers a clear and concise introduction to the development of Walt Disney’s first full-length animated feature. The book’s use of stills, roughs, and concept art vividly illustrate much of the “magic” that goes into making an animated film. Not only that, but the book’s incorporation of technical details provides enough “insider information” to appeal to those wanting to know more about the how of animation. In fact, I used the book’s section on the multiplane camera to introduce the invention’s importance to an introductory class in animation. It worked wonders!
Also nicely developed in the book is how Snow White set the production and narrative standards for the Disney’s subsequent films. It’s nice to see a coffee table book with substance!
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– January 18, 2010
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I was greatly dissapointed in the print quality. All pages are cut in difference sizes and don’t match the cover. The binding is somewhat fragile and didn’t survive a couple of readings.
Golden Books are the best. Great illustrations and wonderful stories. My 4 year old daughter loves to have me read them to her at bedtime.
I had the same books as a child in the 70′s.
I read this to our son, sadly, after he “out grew” these books, they were passed on. Happily, after searching all over I found these treasures on Amazon and now have a new collection for our beautiful grand daughter to enjoy.
I am so disappointed. So many of these Little Golden Books have very disturbing themes. For some reason, a parent is usually deceased, or gets killed, or is somehow separated from the child. Then there is violence–even Winnie the Pooh has a gun in it, and in the other stories someone is always getting beaten, abused, kidnapped, muzzled, or otherwise physically hurt. But Snow White takes the cake with murder–in this version of Snow White, the queen sends someone to KILL her. Why? Because the queen is jealous of her beauty? Great, let’s read this to my 3-year-old. “Mommy, why is there a knife on the ground next to the woodsman?” What are people thinking?! This is not an appropriate storyline for young children. Too bad…the illustrations are beautiful.
The book was what I wanted. I hated paying more for postage than I
did for the book. Also the book was bowed and I had to put heavy
books on it to try to straighted it out. I was happy with the book,
just not the shipping.
Snow White has NO character in the book but manages to marry a man who also has NO character. It portrays women as either perfect (Snow White) or entirely evil (Wicked Step-Mother). It contradicts it’s own message in that the wicked step-mother’s quest for beauty makes her evil but Snow White lands prince charming because of her remarkable beauty. It’s not a good thing to fill impressionable children’s minds with in my oppinion. I’ll be writting an alternative version of most disney books and presenting it to them. Keep an eye out.
I LOVE THIS BOOK IM NOT A LITTLE GIRL ANYMORE BUT I STILL ENJOY READING THIS STORY IF YOU HAVE LITTLE KIDS YOU SHOULD BUY THIS BOOK IM SURE THEY’LL LOVE IT
This is a must read for any little princess (or prince) This classical story will never grow old or boring my kids love it as do I!!
A Classic is all I can say. It tell’s the story of jealous step moms in the world. But the litte people is what catches a child’s attention.
In addition to Disney overemphasizing beauty and making fun of short people, Snow White is racist!!! Where are all the colored folks in this fairy tale? As a proud Asian, I am insulted that my daughters can find no one who looks like themselves! Why couldn’t Snow White have been Asian? Then they could have renamed the story SNOW YELLOW!!! (BTW, this review is all tongue in cheek. I’m just making fun of those people using modern day political correctness to judge a movie that’s 75 years old).
The illustrations are okay, but this adaptation strays too far from the original story. She gives the dwarves silly names, worse than Disney, Fred and Ted–good grief. And naming the dwarves serves no purpose. The ending is totally made up. In Snow White, there is no shattered mirror, no enchanter who reclaims it, if you want to write your own story do so–why muck with the fairy tales.
All I can say is WOW! It may be hard to tell from the picture, but all of the illustrations in this book are actually very beautiful, very intricate embroidery work. It’s unbelievable and very exquisite when you see it in person. ALso look at her other kids book, The Starlight Princess — Amazon’s so great with the ability to see inside of the book and you can see inside the Starlight Princess to see better detail of Belinda Downes’ exceptional work. What brilliant illustrations!! Cannot say enough!!
One can always trust the talents of Joan Aiken to put a fresh spin on an enduring classic. It’s wonderful to read a version of the Snow White story in which the heroine is not pure sappiness personified, where the wicked queen is not simply the embodiment of all that is evil, where the magic mirror has something of a sarcastic attitude, and where so many little details of the story, long taken for granted, are actually EXPLAINED: why the queen has these magical powers, how she acquired the mirror, how the huntsman handled his deception, what the dwarves’ names were, where the charming prince lived…And the embroidered illustrations are, just simply, magical—the detail and cleverness will hold the attention of any squirming small child. I can’t wait to read this aloud to my niece and nephew, and show them the wonderful pictures.
If you like your fairy tales totally authentic and not Disney-sized, you will love this one! It’s Snow-White with all the scary parts left in–the wicked stepmother asking for the liver and lungs of the dead Snow-White, the prince falling in love with a dead body—it would have been a little much for my sons had they not been 8 and 11 at first reading! As it was, they liked this a lot—perhaps because I don’t let them watch horror movies and this is as close as they get!
But besides that, this is a beautiful book. It’s an interesting set-up, with all the writing on alternate double pages and the big picture spreads on the others. The pictures are extremely detailed and wonderful to look at. However, if you are doing this as a read-aloud, it’s sometimes hard to give the pictures their due, as the kids are eager to hear what happens next and you have to turn to the page to read that. It’s the sort of book you would need to have around the house a lot, so they would be able to look at it at their leisure.
I would say this is most definately for ages 8 and up or so! It’s a gorgeous book, and a more compelling story than the fairy tale I remember.
Quick someone, grab some rope. Disney is down and we need to protect ourselves while we can.
It is so wonderful to see this beautiful tale restored to its original depth and content. The translation is marvelous, from showing the queen being overpowered by jealousy, to the interest and friendliness of the woodland creatures. And the illustrations!! No strange little cartoon creatures here, just reagular dwarf men, neither spooky nor kooky. The illustrations are so beautiful, one can’t help becoming absorbed in the intricacy and detail of each tree and piece of fabric! A truly wonderful book!
Jarrell has translated this from the German version as precisely as he could, and it’s a pleasure to read a Brothers Grimm story as it was originally written. I love the book, however, for the exquisite illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. They are amazingly beautiful–so precise, sensitive, and well-executed, and yet boldly designed. She places us immediately within the scene and then our eyes move from detail to detail, always finding something new.
This is not a book to rush through. If you’re reading it to a young child, who is anxious to hear the story for the first time, you might not be able to linger as long as you’d like over the illustrations (which are not on the same pages as the text). Most children, however, will be as captivated by the illustrations as they are by the story. Jarrell and Burkert have done an excellent job together. For those of you who collect beautiful books, make sure you have this one.
Denise Hillman Moynahan
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