The Queen's Tale

by Kaye Umansky, Honore Alexandre (Illustrator)

The Queen is fed up with Snow White. She's so sickeningly soppy and trilling and she turns her father the King into a gibbering fool. So when a run-of-the-mill magic mirror tells the Queen that Snow White is more beautiful than she is, Snow White has got to go!

52 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2013

Reviews

[Christina Reid · Rating 3 out of 5]

We recently ordered another pack of the brilliant dyslexia-friendly books from Barrington Stoke for our school library and I couldn't resist picking this one up to read myself as I love fractured and re-imagined fairytales.
This story sticks quite close to the original, but the Queen never comes across as evil - rather quite shallow and more interested in acquiring shoes and handbags than in her stepdaughter. Fans of the original story looking for a frothy, quick read, will enjoy this.

[Stargazer · Rating 3 out of 5]

great wee series for dyslexic/reluctant readers

[Tracy Enright · Rating 3 out of 5]

This quickreads book is a retelling of Snow White from the Queen' point of view. It's a fairly straightforward retelling with no surprises, but the story is so well-known and the queen's motives so well-documented that there isn't really much to work with. It has been given some modern twists but the familiar elements are there with the woodland animals, reluctant huntsman, the poisoned apple and the protective dwarves (even if they are only referred to).

The author did a much better job with her retelling of Hansel and Gretel in the Wickedest Witch in the World.

[Jenni · Rating 3 out of 5]

The classic fairtyle, Snow White, re-told from the Queen's perspective. This is not as the original story since there are some creative twist and turns thrown in it. The ending was nothing as I've thought. Apparently "shopping" is the key word in this re-telling LOL