In literature groups, students could potentially discuss the use of metaphor, oenomania, author/illustrator’s choice, and compare/ contrast the original fairytale with the retelling. There is limited text the reader is asked to interpret the illustrations and structure. Teachers’ Tools for Navigation: This would be an excellent text to hand a more reluctant reader. More mature themes such as death, assassination, murder were evaluated within a historical context to create an incredible murder mystery story at the level of a middle grade reader. The illustrations are gorgeous with distinct intentionality.

I identify as a Disney Classic enthusiast but I was pleasantly surprised with the ending. Review: Matt Phelan reinvented the “happily ever after” with this retelling. KILL.” In a moody, cinematic new telling of a beloved fairy tale, extraordinary graphic novelist Matt Phelan captures the essence of classic film noir on the page-and draws a striking distinction between good and evil. 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.

The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt.

GoodReads Summary: Award-winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan delivers a darkly stylized noir Snow White set against the backdrop of Depression-era Manhattan.

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