The Snow Queen

by Susanna Davidson, Elena Selivanova (Illustrator)

An enchanting re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen's timeless classic fairytale, with beautiful illustrations by Elena Selivanova.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Fairy Tales

24 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Susanna Davidson also writes as Zanna Davidson.

She joined Usborne Publishing almost straight out of university and has been writing books for them pretty much ever since. She has written about everything from dinosaurs to the Queen to Fairy Ponies and tiny monsters, small enough to fit in your pocket. She is also a mum of two boys and works from home, where she spends most of her time talking to the dog and trying not to eat too much cheese.

Reviews

[Shan ~A~]

The great thing about doing the Fairytales challenge is that I get to read these to my youngest daughter. I really like the Snow Queen, I wish I could have found the original version, but this is the only one I could find right now. I would have loved to have more details, but for the age group it was meant for it was great. My 6 year old definitely enjoyed it.

[Dii]

Hôm nay đột nhiên loay hoay lục tìm những cuốn sách đọc đã lâu, thì nhớ tới cuốn này.
Đây là cuốn sách khiến mình thích việc đọc sách hơn, mặc dù theo cách hơi buồn cười.
Mình được học đọc khá sớm, mẹ và Ngoại cũng mê sách, nên mua cho mình nhiều lắm.
Hôm đó học đọc, cô bảo đem một cuốn sách lên lớp đọc, trong khi các bạn đem những cuốn sách ảnh mỏng như Bubu, mẹ đem cho mình "Bà chúa Tuyết", nhưng mà cuốn có minh hoạ ảnh của Kim Đồng cơ.
Hồi đó thấy bản thân ngầu cực...cứ đọc tiếp để ngầu hơn nữa, rồi thích đọc sách lúc nào không hay.

[Wesley]

I read this book to my four year old daughter as a bedtime story, after she borrowed it from a local library. I’m almost 90% sure, we had borrowed the book before, but my daughter says we haven’t. The story is ok, the illustrations are very good. However, I think it lacks that little something, that ‘je ne sais quoi’ that would make me want to read it again, or recommend it.

[Annie Kennedy]

Lovely book about friendship.

[Anthony]

A tale based on the Hans Christian Andersen's story concerning two friends. One became ensnared by the power of the Snow Queen, and the other who set out to rescue and break the spell of evil.

[Lê Tuyền ICHI]

Truyện dài và phức tạp hơn các truyện cổ Grimm, Andersen thông thường.
Khá thú vị.
Nhẹ nhàng mở chào năm mới!

[The Book Sale Scrounger]

There's a great deal of unsolicited kissing going on in this book...

This is a hard tale to introduce to children. It's very long (fifty pages can be a lot for a little guy, even if they don't have much text on them!), and there's just so much going on. But given the length and weight of the tale, Lesley Sims did a pretty alright job. It's perhaps a bit too dumbed down in places - there is a way to speak in a manner that children will understand AND be poetic - but there's no denying that it gets the story across.

[Anna Kļaviņa]

While original tale is too long for reading aloud this retelling is perfect for introducing a child with the brave Gerda. The Snow Queen is very short but it doesn't miss the adventure & friendship spirit.

[Taio]

It was ok not my favorite

[Austin Phadoungsyavong]

I think good story book about boy and girl was friend but boy meet snow queen. Then in snow those kids play with snow and boy look like different than normal. One day, boy was missing child and girl start search her friend.