(By the by, this is another title that I listened to first.
New version of old story, not quite a graphic novel but the illustrations work so well with the text they enhance the whole = muddled meditations. The award focuses on the writing, but this whole package tells a story and it is amazing. The committees have been rewarding graphic formats lately, but this is not a really a graphic novel, rather a heavily illustrated book. Again, this could go either way for the award. Unlike Gaiman’s Newbery-winning Coraline, this is one of his fairy tale retellings (he likes them), so will the Printz committee look askance at that? That it is not 100% ‘new?’ Also, the book is riddled with Riddell’s gorgeous pen and ink drawings (see what I did there?). There is one person awake in the sleeping castle – a very elderly woman – but who is she exactly? And it is not giving too much away to say that the sleeper awakens, but that she is nothing like what the queen, or readers expect. Snow White is a tough, no nonsense queen who leaves her pretty, little prince husband at home.
Since this is written by Gaiman, he twists the tale. The spell appears to be spreading, plunging surrounding villages into sleep, so the queen sets out with three dwarf friends to see if the princess can be awakened and the spell broken before it reaches her kingdom. I fear my considerations for whether or not this book is a Printz contender are muddled.Ī queen, who may or may not be Snow White (her name is never given, but in the past she had slept for a year and spent time among dwarves) hears about a princess who was placed under a sleeping spell.
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