The Snow White fairytale has been told and retold and overdone to death until there’s not much left to do but forget about it entirely.

The boys are hesitant to tell Snow their names, but readers will want tissues on hand when they finally do. Snow White: A Graphic Novel By Matt Phelan Candlewick Press 19.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-7233-1 Ages 9-12 On shelves now I’d have said it couldn’t be done. Snow’s affectionate relationship with “the Seven,” a group of street children, is among this adaptation’s most potent elements. In Snow White: A Graphic Novel, Phelan draws from the best parts of each form to create both a hardcover hideout and an artful homage to be read and revisited panel by panel, frame by frame. The result is an atmospheric tale that will be perfect for fans of historical fiction, fairy tale adaptations, and, of course, graphic novels. Moody gray and sepia panels carry the story forward, punctuated by splashes of lurid red-for an animal heart, procured at a butcher’s shop, or an apple tainted with a syringe. Matt Phelan’s newest book, Snow White: A Graphic Novel, takes an old story and re-imagines it with an early twentieth century back drop. She soon dispatches her husband, only to learn that Snow stands to inherit his wealth one of many exquisite touches is Phelan’s use of a stock ticker as the magic mirror, rattling away like Poe’s tell-tale heart as Snow’s stepmother’s ambitions shift into madness. Books by Matt Phelan (Author of Snow White) Books by Matt Phelan Matt Phelan Average rating 3. Years after tuberculosis has claimed the life of Samantha “Snow” White’s mother, her father, “the King of Wall Street,” finds a regal match in the “Queen of the Follies,” whose Louise Brooks bob is as sharp as her glare. Phelan ( Bluffton) delivers a spectacular 20th-century update of “Snow White,” transplanting the story to Jazz Age and Depression-era New York City, where themes of jealousy, beauty, and power find a comfortable home.

Snow White by Matt Phelan