Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Classics Illustrated Junior, 50th Anniversary (Classics Illustrated Junior : No. 501) - Softcover

Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894998081 ISBN 13: 9781894998086

Publisher: Jack Lake Productions Inc., 2004

Synopsis

The classic fairytale of Snow White seeking refuge from her evil stepmother the Queen, among seven friendly elves. She is rescued by a handsome prince and lives happily ever after. Fillers include:The Farmer in the Dell, The Animal World- The Lion and a color me page on the back inside cover. 32 full color pages. Beautifully adapted by Alex Blum and restored by Susan Shaw-Russell.

About this title

About the Author:

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm (January 4, 1785 - September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 - December 16, 1859), were German academics, linguists and cultural researchers who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular. Jacob also did academic work in philology, related to how the sounds in words shift over time (Grimm's law); he was also a lawyer whose legal work, German Legal Antiquities (Deutsche Rechtsaltertümer) in 1828, made him a valuable source of testimony about the origin and meaning of much legal historical idiom usage and symbolism.They can be counted along with Karl Lachmann and Georg Friedrich Benecke as founding fathers of Germanic philology and German studies. Late in life they undertook the compilation of the first German dictionary: Wilhelm died in December 1859, having completed the letter D; Jacob survived his brother by nearly four years, completing the letters A, B, C and E, and was working on Frucht (fruit) when he collapsed at his desk. The first collection of fairy tales Children's and Household Tales was published in 1812 and it contained more than 200 fairy tales. Some collections of the stories had already been written by Charles Perrault in the late 1600s, with somewhat unexpected versions. In the original published forms, the Grimm's fairy tales were dark and violent, in contrast to the lighter, modern Disney versions; of those tales. They are among the best-known story tellers of European folk tales, and their work popularized such stories as Cinderella (Aschenputtel), The Frog Prince; (Der Froschkönig), Hansel and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin; (Rumpelstilzchen), Sleeping Beauty; (Dornröschen), and Snow White (Schneewittchen).

About this edition

• Publisher: Jack Lake Productions Inc.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1894998081
• ISBN 13: 9781894998086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32