Snow White: A Graphic Novel by Matt Phelan was recently listed in The Wall Street Journal as The 20 Best Children's Books of the Past 20 Years by Meghan Cox Gurdon. I was grateful for the reminder. This, like Fiona French's Snow White in New York, is set in New York City, but this time the timeline is centered more around the stock market crash and the tone is classic film noir. The dwarves are street urchins. Phelan's illustrations bring beauty and grace to a dark story filled with bravery and endurance.
Book description from the publisher:
“Phelan’s noir-esque adaptation of the classic fairy tale is atmospheric, clever, and touching. . . . A stunning, genre-bending graphic novel.” — School Library Journal (starred review)The curtain rises on New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins, brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow; and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall, churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked words: “Another . . . More Beautiful . . . KILL.”
For more about Favorite Snow Whites in this blog series:
Favorite Snow Whites, Part 2: Snow White in New York by Fiona French
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