Snow White, Rose Red
Novels:
Fables:
Legends in Exile by Bill
Willingham, DC Comics, 2003- In this graphic novel, all the fairy
tale characters have been banished from Fableland by the Adversary to modern
day New York City where they must keep their identities secret from the "mundanes."
It appears that party girl Rose Red, the twin sister of Snow White (deputy
mayor to Old King Cole) has been murdered. Was it her lover Jack (of
Jack and the Beanstalk) or notorious wife killer Bluebeard?
Snow
White and Rose Red by Patricia
Wrede, Tor Books, 1993- Blanche and Rosamund live with their mother,
the Widow Arden, in the small village of Mortlak. When the girls venture past
the border of Faerie in order to gather the herbs their mother needs for her
livelihood, they become part of an attempt to rescue a Faerie prince who has
been turned into a bear through the meddling of Doctor Dee, astrologer to
Queen Elizabeth I, and his friend Edward Kelly.
"Rose"
in The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca
Lia Block, Joanna Cotler, 2000- Sisters Rose White and Rose Red
are inseparable. When Rose White falls in love, will Rose Red have the courage
to let her go?
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