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Snow White and Rose Red by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Frozen was widely heralded for its focus on a sister relationship instead of a romantic one the first Disney fairy tale retelling that was about a bond between sisters. But the movie was (extremely loosely) based on The Snow Queen a fairy tale that doesn’t even have a sister in it.
My upcoming middle grade book,
Thornwood, is told from the point of view of Sleeping Beauty’s little sister, and is going to kick off a series of retellings, called Sisters Ever After, about “the sisters the fairy tales left out.” I had a lot of fun weaving the complexities of a sister relationship into a story that was originally about an only child. But at some point I started to wonder: why does a fairy tale about sisters seem like such a novel concept? After all, most fairy tales didn’t originate at a time when only children were the norm. Yet a search through popular fairy tales reveals a smattering of sister-brother combinations, and a
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At a time when many people are looking to escape from reality, books offer a quick-and-easy getaway to new worlds and different ways of thinking.
It s never too late to make read more books your New Year s resolution and why not start with some of Utah s most famous writers?
Whether your interests are fiction or nonfiction, fantasy or mystery, biographies or self-help books, these Utah authors all offer something worth reading.
Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is best known for his popular Ender s Game series, but he s also authored several other books, articles, poems, screenplays, and more. (For a full list, check out his bibliography.)