A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of the Brothers Grimm tale “Little Snow-White”: a proud queen’s mirror names Snow White the fairest, seven dwarfs take her in, and after the queen’s poisoned apple, a prince’s stumbling servants wake her.
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A queen sat sewing by her black ebony window. She pricked her finger, and three red drops fell on the snow. She wished for a child as white as snow, as red as those drops, as black as ebony.
A baby girl was born, with snow-white skin, red cheeks, and ebony-black hair. She was named Snow White. Then her mother died.
The king married again. His new queen, Snow White’s stepmother, was beautiful, but proud. “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of us all?” she asked. “The Queen is the fairest of the day,” it said.
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