Snow White and Rose Red by Vera Southgate

Snow White and Rose Red Reviews

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  Set

  
  
  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.
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  Marquise

  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.
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  Sophie Crane

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

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

  I loved this book it was so cute, and the black bear was so kind I hated the goblin.
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  flajol

  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. :)
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  Amanda

  Read for my niece, a bit high reading level for her at the moment. It was a bit wordy and the story didn't really seem to flow, seemed to spend a lot of the book on the set up, and go on unnecessarily with the dwarf. But entertaining. They are very flavourless heroines.
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  Izzie 'Denmark'

  Sweet little story. :)
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  Lynn Smith

  Loved this enchanting fairy tale and rediscovered with my niece in 2009 from reading it to her as a baby into her early childhood.