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Must Know Stories: Level 2: Snow White


Early Reader

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No. of pages 32

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The Queen is beautiful, but very vain. When her magic mirror says that her stepdaughter Snow White is more beautiful than her, the Queen is furious. Now she will do anything to get rid of Snow White!

A beautifully illustrated retelling of this favourite traditional story.

Must Know Stories includes favourite tales, celebrating the diversity of our literary heritage. Level 2 stories are told in under 1000 words.

 

This book features in the following series: Early Reader, Must Know Stories-Level 2 .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Hachette Children's Group .

This is Mark Sperring's second picture book for The Chicken House. He's a bookseller in Bristol. Liz and Kate Pope are identical twins who have just left art college. This is their spectacular debut picture book. Maggie Moore lives in the Midlands with her family. She was a primary schools teacher for many years and now works as an author, literacy expert and consultant. She has written fiction and nonfiction for children of all ages and abilities.

This book contains the following story:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
A queen sat sewing and pricked her finger. A spot of blood fell on her white cloth and she sighed. 'How I wish I could have a daughter with cheeks as red as blood, hair as black as ivory and skin as white as snow'. The queen's wish was granted and soon she gave birth to a beautiful daughter who she named Snow White. But then the queen died and the king remarried. The new queen was very vain and every day she would ask her mirror 'Mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all', to which the mirror would reply, 'You are the fairest o queen'. Time passed and the queen got older and her face dropped, and Snow White grew into a beautiful woman. The day came when the mirror in all honesty could not say that the queen was the most beautiful of them all, but had to reply 'O queen lovely as you are, Snow White is now fairer'. The queen was very cross and ordered a huntsman to take Snow White into the forest and kill her, bringing back her heart as proof of the deed. The huntsman could not bear to kill Snow White so he left her alive in the forest and took back the heart of an animal instead. But the mirror revealed that Snow White was still alive and living as a housemaid with seven dwarfs. The Queen set out to kill Snow White herself. When the girl ate the poisoned apple she dropped down as if dead and the Queen was satisfied. The dwarfs wept over the glass coffin. A prince was so taken with Snow White's beauty that he lifted her from the coffin, dislodging the apple and so brought her magically back to life. The two were married, and the Queen superceded.

This book is in the following series:

Must Know Stories-Level 2

Early Reader

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