The Snow Princess - Hardcover

Sanderson, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316779822 ISBN 13: 9780316779821

Verlag: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

When the Snow Princess sets off to see the world, Father Frost and Mother Spring warn her never to fall in love, lest she lose her immortality. She journeys alone through many lands, keeping her heart cold, but finds herself drawn to a kind and handsome young shepherd named Sergei. The Snow Princess begins to fall in love with him, but her parents* warning haunts her dreams, and she must finally decide her own fate in the chaos of a powerful snowstorm that threatens Sergei*s life. Inspired by a Russian ballet and illustrated with Ruth Sanderson*s lush oil paintings, this original fairy tale will charm readers of all ages.

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Ruth Sanderson is a gifted author and illustrator who has received numerous honors for such books as Cinderella, The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring, The Crystal Mountain, Tapestries, Rose Red and Snow White, Papa Gatto, The Nativity, The Enchanted Wood, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses. She lives with her family in Ware, Massachusetts.

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Sanderson's version of a Russian folktale is based on the Tchaikovsky opera-ballet The Snow Princess, which recasts the traditional story as a romance in which the daughter of Father Frost enters the human world and finds her icy heart warmed, to her parents' dismay, by a handsome youth. Sanderson's resplendent oils have a suitably chilly polish, and children will be transfixed by the characters' elaborate Byzantine costumes. Sanderson stays true to her source in every detail but one: in the opera the girl is as doomed as her folktale counterpart, but Sanderson allows her to forgo her immortality to stay with the man she loves. Jennifer Mattson
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Grade 2-4–Inspired by the Russian ballet The Snow Maiden, Sanderson has written a fictional tale of the daughter of Father Frost and Mother Spring. Unmindful of her parents' warnings that she will become mortal if she loves a human, the Snow Princess goes off to learn the ways of people. When she falls in love with a young man and saves him from dying in a snowstorm that she has created, she willingly trades her immortality for love. Despite some dramatic fairy-tale elements, the story is not compelling. Also, there is some unevenness in the double-page oil paintings set in a wooded countryside in winter. Some feature small, sketchy illustrations of people in peasant costume, while a few show the Snow Princess and her young man in larger, realistic portraits that are obviously painted from models. This is not one of Sanderson's best efforts.–Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Little, Brown Young Readers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0316779822
• ISBN 13: 9780316779821
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
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