Snow White and Rose Red: A Grimm's Fairy Tale

Ladybird – Well Loved Tales Series 606D #3.5

by Jacob Grimm (Editor)

Grimm's classic story of the two sisters who live in the woods. They befriend a bear who turns out to be the prince bewitched by the evil dwarf.

Genres: Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Childrens, Short Stories, Picture Books

28 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1827

About the author

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).

Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.

This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .

Adapted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the better fairytales.
Like, you could read this one to your kids and not give them nightmares.



So, a nice widow and her two young daughters live in the woods. The girls (shockingly) get along with each other and their mother (shockingly) isn't a cunt trying to kill them.
A bear shows up.
He's hurt so they help him, and it turns out he can talk. Because that's a thing that happens.
But he's a nice talking bear. You know, lets the girls pull his fur, paint his toenails, and whatnot.



On the flip side, these girls keep running into this assy little dwarf that is constantly getting himself into life-threatening situations. They help him, and he cusses them out for not doing a "better" job of it.
Wash, rinse, repeat.



The girls eventually come across a showdown between the bear and the dwarf, wherein the jerk of a dwarf tries to get the bear to eat the girls instead of himself.
The bear takes him out with one big paw and...POOF! He's transformed into a hottie.



As you can probably tell, the ungrateful gremlin guy was evil - no need to mourn that he was mauled by a bear. And the fuzzy, talking bear was a prince under a curse from this nasty dwarf who wanted his treasure.
Snow White ends up marrying the bear prince, with the only downside being she has to shave his back every night. Rose Red ends up with his up-till-now-unknown brother, Prince 2.0.
But I'm sure that won't cause problems later.



And they all lived happily ever after.

Findaway Voices
English 15m
by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
read by Erica Holden, Martin Holden

[Elena Balabanova · Rating 5 out of 5]

Позабравена, но много, много любима приказка от детството!

[Marquise · Rating 3 out of 5]

This lovely fairy tale's been steadily growing on me, both because of the plot with the sisterly love and partnership free of rivalry and bickering, rare for a fairy tale, and for the gorgeous art I'm finding for it.

This edition has illustrations by James Weren, who has a very nice style, very colourful and child-friendly, although I found the dwarf too cartoonish in relation to everyone else. It's not the best picture book for this tale, but it keeps the story unaltered, which makes it good as an introductory book for young children to the tale.

[Set · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many memories with this book, I can feel the nostalgia. The tale includes the little boy (angel) at the beginning, sometimes excluded. I love it that the girls have the roses of their given name on their hair and they are dressed the same. I always imagined that they were twins when I was little. There are a few different illustrated versions of this tale by Vera Southgate and I remember each one.

[Fred · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this fairytale! It was fairly short and not particularly eventful, considering it was by the Grimm Brothers, but it was very cute and it tied up as every fairytale does. :)

[Marquise · Rating 2 out of 5]

Faithful but ultimately boring adaptation of the Grimms' tale, that spends too much time on little inconsequential details that only pad up the book with more pages (the arranging of flowers, for example, and artwork that anthropomorphises the bear a tad much, to the point it looks like a Teddy bear on two feet instead of the actual bear he is supposed to look like, and also chose to make Rose Red a black-haired girl ignored this adaptation's own text that says the girls are like the rosebushes outside their cottage, white and red, which has always been interpreted to be a blond and a redhead since the oldest illustrations for this tale.

A pretty average and forgettable edition, there's versions with more fetching artwork out there.

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is not to be confused with the well known fairytale Snow White. This Snow White lives with her mother and sister in the forest and is visited, one night, by a bear. The story also includes a dwarf, a treasure, and, of course, the royal element which is always present in a fairytale. All these components should be enough to make something amazing, like so many of the Grimm's fairytales, but somehow, I didn't get that feeling. I had expected something more, perhaps a message. Unfortunately, it just serves to preserve the folklore.

[Tilly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did not remember very much if this fairy tale in particular and it was nice to read it again.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

It Bought back lovely memories reading this just like old times.

[Komal]

Next thing you know they'll have Sky Blue. And then maybe Grass Green.

[Indya · Rating 4 out of 5]

This short story confused me quite a bit - until I realised that this Snow-White has nothing to do with the Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Whoops!

[Ken · Rating 3 out of 5]

An enjoyable short fairytale. Not to be confused with the other Snow White.

I read this book as it's part of the 'Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge'.

[Red · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sisters are doing it for themselves

[Marquise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely edition by Adrienne Adams, one I'd not seen before.

[Lör K. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Snow-White and Rose-Red is a story that most people have heard of in their lives. I grew up reading this in a lot of magazines I had as a child, and have read this countless time, all of them different versions, all of them with different characters as the main girls, and a lot of them with different endings.

Reading the original text of this really made me smile. It was nice to find out what actually happened in this story, after so many different endings, and to see why this is a pretty popular Brothers Grimm story. This was a story I enjoyed immensely and I find that it didn't end as roughly as a lot of Brothers Grimm stories do. This was a delectable read, and one of the stories I will definitely be reading again. Absolutely wonderful. A definite recommendation from me.

[Genevieve · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought I had read most of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales but I can't ever remember reading this one.
Snow White and Rose Red are sisters who help their mother (a rarity that children have a mother), and play in the woods.
I really loved this short fairy tale and the fact that the girls were helpful and were rewarded even though they did what they did because they were trying to be helpful.

[Tiffany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly tame for the Brothers Grimm. Enjoyable just the same.

[Giorgia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely short story about Snow White and her sister Rose Red and a bear that is robbed by a dwarf and becomes a prince after all. Very different from the classic Snow White.

[Natalie bookland · Rating 4 out of 5]

¡Hola Criaturas! ¡Feliz Navidad! ^^

Este es uno de mis cuentos preferidos. Me encanta la historia de Blancanieve y Rojaflor. Si no la conocéis, os la recomiendo muchísimo. ^^

[Analissa Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story is the definition of a classical fairytale. Though I never read this book as a child or even heard of it, when I did read it I knew this would be one of my many favorite books I would keep at home. It had all the elements of a great story, an introduction, a antagonist, and a love story. though there was no real conflict for the girls other than the Dwarf being mean to them it still was a cause for the a great story. I'm only a little confused on if this story is what happened before the classic Snow White story, because at the end of this story the two girls marry princes and become princesses, but in the classic Snow White story she was a princess because her father was a deceased king. The Grimm Brothers did a good job writing this story!

[Veronica · Rating 3 out of 5]

One day, two sisters, Snow White and Rose Red, and their mother let a big bear come to their house to get warm because outside winter was to crude. When spring came along, the bear departure to his home to take care of his treasure. The two sister meanwhile, encounter with a mean dwarf. They help him to get loose from his troubles, but the dwarf didn' thank the girls for the help. One day, the girls find the dwarf's treasure, and he gets mad with them. At that moment, the big bear appeared and scared the dwarf away. The two girls were so greatful to see the bear, but the animal suddenly lose his fur and transform himself into a beautiful young prince. Happily, the girls married the prince and his brother, and the mother goes to live with them at the castle.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Getting ready to read a novel inspired by this tale, so i wanted to refamiliarize myself with it. I like it. There's a talking bear with treasure, a foul dwarf in need of some comeuppance, and the girls are positive and helpful in dealing with both. Looking forward to seeing how Emily Winfield Martin expands their story.

[Jamii · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this story better than the Grimm Brothers Rapunzel which I also recently read(both are on a book list/challenge I've decided to tackle) this one flowed better and I like the story telling better, unlike Rapunzel I had know idea of any details in this story, maybe that's why I enjoyed it more? It sends a better message than Rapunzel that's for sure, it teaches that you should always be kind and use manners.

[Brenda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok, number 1, this Snow White has nothing to do with the famous Snow White, other then sharing a name with her...unless this one predates the one from history, before the death of the mother, that was unclear. You really have to read it like Snow White is a complete stranger to you, because in this book, she is.

[flajol · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales when I was a child, and now when I see them I snap them up (my own copies didn't survive into adulthood with me). The stories are sometimes a bit naff, but for me it was always the pictures that fascinated me. I still like them. :)

[James Biser · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an interesting collection of stories about the sisters Snow White and Rose Red. The antagonists of the tales are greedy dwarves. The sisters rescue a bear from the dwarves. The bear is an enchanted king who marries one of the sisters. His brother is a king that marries the other.

[Gerard Hoey · Rating 5 out of 5]

During my childhood, I read and owned almost all the titles in the Ladybird books library. One I could never find was this one. I read it, but did not have a copy of my own :(

Someday I will!

[Tricia Schneider · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this when I was a child. This is one of my favorite fairy tales!

[Vaishali · Rating 1 out of 5]

Quite boring. Non-sensical without magic.

[Kevin Hull · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not the Snow White story you're thinking of, but nonetheless a charming tale espousing the virtue of kindness and the price of ingratitude. Oh, and there's a talking bear, who fits in prominently.