Snow White

Written by Chloe Perkins Publisher: Little Simon (Simon & Schuster)

The classic tale of Snow White gets a fresh twist in this debut title of a brand-new board book series, Once Upon a World. With Japan as the backdrop, and beautiful artwork from Japanese illustrator Misa Saburi, Snow White is still the same girl who meets seven dwarves and accepts a shiny red apple—but she’s totally reimagined. Once Upon a World offers a multicultural take on the fairy tales we all know and love. Because these tales are for everyone, everywhere.

Process

I was offered this job after the art director saw the piece above, which was for an assignment given to workshop attendees at the SCBWI conference (maybe 2013?). The assignment was simply Snow White. I was lucky that I had this on my website when Little Simon was thinking about culturally reimagined fairy tales!