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"Snow White" is a German fairy tale known across much of Europe, and is today one of the most famous fairy tales worldwide. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection
Grimms' Fairy Tales. It was titled in German:
Sneewittchen (in modern orthography
Schneewittchen), and numbered as Tale 53. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854.
The fairy tale features such elements as the magic mirror, the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, and the characters of the evil queen and the seven dwarfs, who were first given individual names in the Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1912) and then given different names in Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Grimm story, which is commonly referred to as "Snow White", should not be confused with the story of "Snow White and Rose Red" (in German "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot"), another fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.
The coloring pages below are based upon a very old European fairy tale
version of "Snow White." I have redrawn them entirely for printing
and coloring. Teachers and homeschoolers may print unlimited copies of
these particular images for their classroom activities. The captions below describe the event in the story illustrated.
Read the full version of the story here.
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| A Queen, Snow White's mother, sat at her palace window,
which had an ebony black frame, stitching her husband's shirts. |
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| "Take the child away into the forest. I will never look upon
her again. You must kill her, and bring me her heart and tongue for a
token." (said the evil stepmother to the huntsman) |
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| "Oh, heavens! oh, heavens!" said they; "what a beauty she is!" and they
were so much delighted that they would not awaken her, but left her to
sleep, and the seventh Dwarf, in whose bed she was, slept with each of
his fellows one hour, and so passed the night. |
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| "What! are you afraid of it?" cried the old woman. "There, see—I will
cut the apple in halves; do you eat the red cheeks, and I will eat the
core." (The apple was so artfully made that the red cheeks alone were
poisoned.) |
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| Then they ordered a case to be made of
glass. In this they could see the body on all sides, and the Dwarfs
wrote her name with golden letters upon the glass, saying that she was a
King's daughter. |
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| Full of joy, the Prince answered, "You are safe with me." And he told to
her what she had suffered, and how he would rather have her than any
other for his wife, and he asked her to accompany him home to the castle
of the King his father. |
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