Snow White revisited - Kristina Chetcuti

Once upon a time, there was a girl called Snow White who lived with her father, a widower king, in a far, far away kingdom.

Snow White lived a very happy life. She was always skipping out of the castle and popping round to villagers’ houses, chatting while helping them with their chores. They opened their hearts to her and she always relayed their messages back to her father in order to make their kingdom a better place.

It so happened that one day her father remarried and the step-mother came to live in the castle. The father started travelling more and more to far away lands to meet kings of other kingdoms, and the new Queen took over. But the Queen did not like Snow White, mostly because she was, as we all know, rather jealous of her.

Now, the Queen had a magic mirror, and she loved asking it who was the fairest in all of the kingdom. For many, many years, the magic mirror had always had one answer: “It’s you, my Queen”. But alas, one day the mirror’s answer was different: “It’s Snow White, my Queen.”

The Queen turned purple and a vein nearly popped in her temple. She stamped her feet, shouted for the guards and screeched at them to lock Snow White in the prison dungeons.

But...