There is nothing super ground-breaking about this, but I think if you go into it looking for a fun, quick read, you can have a heck of an enjoyable time with Mirror, Mirror. While it pays fairly strict homage to the original story, you still feel compelled to keep turning the pages! It was just enough to give it a new and exciting feel. There are multiple small twists to the Disney version most of us are familiar with. Jen Calonita's retelling is perfect for Snow White fans, no matter whose side you're on, as it is told in alternating perspectives between Snow and the Evil Queen. I've always had a soft spot in my heart for this classic story, but let's be honest, we all know which character I relate to the most. I hope I hear from you!Īhhhh, Snow White. I promise to give book updates here, and on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or my website. Ever wonder what it would be like if your parents got a job with someone like Taylpr Swift? My other middle grade series, VIP, follows super fan Mackenzie Lowell as she tours with her favorite band, Perfect Storm. I've been writing middle grade too and am having so much fun with my series Fairy Tale Reform School! The fourth book in this series about a school run by former villains is called Tricked and will be out March 2018. I have also written the stand-alone novels Sleepaway Girls, it's companion book, Summer State of Mind and the Belles series.

My first series was 'Secrets of My Hollywood Life' and it followed a teen star named Kaitlin Burke who struggled with the fame game. I love writing novels for teens (and for savvy grown ups who know that YA rocks at any age). I wanted to be an author for young readers, which I am! I wanted a mansion, limo, lake house, pool and speed boat (still sounds quite nice). Buy all the Cabbage Patch Kids in the world and give them away for free (because apparently that was how I rolled). I've been writing ever since I can remember, but it was fourth grade when I put my 'three wishes' for a genie down on paper.

All comes good in the end, however, when the prince’s sisters remove the shirt and revive Ziricochel.I'm Jen Calonita, a MG and YA author who loves what I do because it lets me connect with all of you (and no, I wasn't intending for that to rhyme!). The sisters send an astrologer to kill Ziricochel, who, after several failed attempts, turns her into a statue using an enchanted shirt. Other versions have evil older sisters, rather than a stepmother, and Ziricochel (as our heroine is called in this Italian version) taking refuge with the Moon, who also plays the role of the magic mirror. Other variants include an enchanted dress, poisoned stockings or deadly flowers, rather than poisoned apple, or Snow White being called Ermellina and running away from home by riding an eagle who takes her away to a palace inhabited by fairies. Other versions in other countries have Snow White taking refuge with robbers rather than dwarfs, or staying in a haunted castle or a house on the seashore, rather than in a forest. The Queen gets her comeuppance at her step-daughter’s wedding, when the prince orders the her to wear a pair of red-hot iron slippers and to dance in them until she drops dead. We all know about the poisoned apple, but in the original version in Grimms’ Fairy Tales, the Wicked Queen tries both to suffocate Snow White by giving her a lacy bodice and then tightening the laces and to stab her in the head with a poisoned comb.

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