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The seven dwarfs / Etienne Delessert.

by Delessert, Etienne

Mankato, MN : Creative Editions, c2001.

32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Gr. 3-4, younger for reading aloud. With its intensely imagined pictures and its sophisticated text, this retelling of the Snow White tale from the point of view of the dwarfs makes a compelling bridge from picture book to fairy tale. The narrator is Stephane, who, along with his six brothers, is preparing to go to the wedding of Snow White. The king outfits the seven in velvet, but the courtiers titter over their height and country ways; the dwarf Solomon's grumbling make an amusing counterpoint. Stephane recounts how they met Snow White 13 years earlier, and the tale proceeds in familiar ways. The king makes them all Dukes of the Forest, but they choose to return to their cottage, and Snow White promises to visit often. Full-page illustrations, with Delessert's signature combination of rubbery exaggeration, painstaking detail, and startling perspectives work with the tiny, fully realized images within the text. - GraceAnne DeCandido; 32p-

BL 01/01/2002 0851

HB 01/00/2002 0066

PW 10/08/2001 0063

Stephane, one of seven dwarf brothers living in the forest, relates how all their lives were changed when they tried to rescue Snow White from the murderous rage of her wicked stepmother.

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