Other reviewers have already gone over the problems with this retelling of the fairytale, so I won't go into detail and wind up just repeating what thOther reviewers have already gone over the problems with this retelling of the fairytale, so I won't go into detail and wind up just repeating what they said. It changes the ending in an out-of-the-blue, tone deaf, counterintuitive way (reminds me of The Pearl of the Soul of the World in that regard) and adds a modern politically correct backstory to the main girl and her family for no reason. The writing is nothing special; it's held up by the artwork alone. Had Morris only done the illustrations and a better writer wrote the prose, we might've had a definitive version of this classic. Instead we have one of the worst versions....more
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