After reading the classic tale of the beautiful princess who takes refuge from her wicked, jealous stepmother in the cottage of seven dwarfs, the reader is invited to turn the book upside down and read an updated version told from the point of view of the stepmother.
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I spent my twenties teaching and writing novels that weren't published. As I approached thirty, my first novel The Schoolteachers was published and promptly faded from view.
That led me to give up writing, I thought, and go for my doctorate in education at the University of Pennsylvania. I did complete the doctorate and along the way hooked up with a major professor who brought me along in the writing of his new reading series. The Bookshops--60 paperback books for the primary grades--was my first success (big time!) and led to a long career writing readers and texts for the school market. I loved my career as a Director of Reading/Language Arts for the public schools of Greensboro, NC and Dallas, TX, and later Vice President of Education for World Book Encyclopedia. But my greatest joy--aside from my three children--came from the many children's books I authored.
Today, I am largely retired and am back once again, just where I started,writing novels. My newest novel Teacher Accused: When Homophobia Explodes in a Texas Town has just been published! And I feel all the excitement I used to feel way back when.
That led me to give up writing, I thought, and go for my doctorate in education at the University of Pennsylvania. I did complete the doctorate and along the way hooked up with a major professor who brought me along in the writing of his new reading series. The Bookshops--60 paperback books for the primary grades--was my first success (big time!) and led to a long career writing readers and texts for the school market. I loved my career as a Director of Reading/Language Arts for the public schools of Greensboro, NC and Dallas, TX, and later Vice President of Education for World Book Encyclopedia. But my greatest joy--aside from my three children--came from the many children's books I authored.
Today, I am largely retired and am back once again, just where I started,writing novels. My newest novel Teacher Accused: When Homophobia Explodes in a Texas Town has just been published! And I feel all the excitement I used to feel way back when.
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This review is from: Snow White/the Unfairest of Them All: A Classic Tale (Point of View) (Steck-Vaughn Point of View Stories) (Paperback)
Dr. Alvin Granowsky has written a number of fairy tale-revisionist combination stories, and this pair is a fine example of what the genre has to offer. Both tales are illustrated with line drawings and each is well told, combining the best principles of language building, such as a better-than-average vocabulary and a mix of sentence lengths, without sacrificing an evocative and plausible narrative flow. The revisionist story is told by the stepmother, who contends that Snow White has resented her since her arriva; Snow White has convinced other people that her stepmother is trying to kill her.These books are a wonderful mechanism for children who are just beginning to understand that other minds have other thoughts. The stories are well-told -- entertaining and instructive. Why lecture to your kids about morality when with a story they can begin to figure it out for themselves?
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