![]() ![]() The Queen is not living very happily ever after. They return to the Queen, whom we recognize as a post-poison-apple Snow White, to warn her of the danger. Like the original stories, the characters here are nameless, identified only by their titles of “Queen,” “Dwarf,” “Girl,” and “Old Woman.” When a group of dwarves travel beneath a mountain to a silk market, they learn that a sleeping sickness is slowly creeping across the land, freezing animals and humans in time and place. ![]() ![]() The Sleeper & the Spindle is a richly illustrated modern fairy tale that blends the stories of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White into an almost unrecognizable retelling. In this retelling, though, the ones misbehaving are the elders. What he hasn’t done before, is concoct a fairy tale retelling that speaks directly to children as much as adults, with veiled Grimm-like warnings about the trouble with misbehaving. Neil Gaiman has tackled the subject of sleeping and dreams before, in his landmark comic series The Sandman. ![]()
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