Snow White in New York by Fiona French

I didn't think this book was all that. My daughter did though, and perhaps that is what matters. Her star rating would be higher than mine.

The book transposes the Snow White story to New York in the 1920s. The mirror becomes a newspaper, the apple a cherry in a cocktail, the dwarfs become jazz-men and the Prince a reporter. So not exactly fairy tale.

Also the tale is really condensed. The jazz-men hardly appear at all. Snow White gets poisoned and then suddenly on the next page the story of her death is in the newspapers.

This book won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1986. That medal is for distinguished illustration in a book for children. The illustrations are okay, in the Art Deco style popular in the 20s, but the story isn't.

People are always trying to bring a fresh angle to well-known fairy tales such as this. A much better attempt at this is Cinderella's Secret Diary by Faye Hanson.

(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed for purchase HERE.)