"It will be good news to many readers that Wanda Gag has made her own translation and pictures for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," writes Miss Anne Carroll Moore in the May-June Horn Book. "The story is as satisfying told in the pictures as it is in the words of the text. In both there is a childlike simplicity united with great strength and beauty. The inimitable drawings of the dwarfs restore their true character as dwarfs."

In a year that has been especially conscious of this tale, it is fitting that an authentic rendition of it should be made available for children who want the real Grimm story. That such an edition would fill a genuine need was felt by many people, particularly librarians, and in discussing the problem with Wanda Gág, Miss Moore suggested that she do the book.

As in her Tales From Grimm, Miss Gág went direct to the German for her text. Her translation is smooth and colorful and above all faithful to the original. The lovely pictures *** all the beauty, humor, and drama of the story. Here in prose and illustration is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the Brothers Grimm set it down. Snow White is a real little princess; the seven dwarfs are exactly what dwarfs should be—kindly, hard-working, scrupulously clean; the wicked queen appears in all her cold, vain majesty. The creatures of the woods, the seven high hills, the queen's *** disguises, the dwarfs' clothes fluttering on the line, their nightshirts flung across their beds, their slippers on the floor—everying lives in *** pictures. This is a beautiful and timely book for both children and adults.

Uniform in format with Tales from Grimm.

From the dust jacket