Snow White and Rose Red

Snow-White and Rose-Red is a traditional German fairy tale. The best-known version is the one collected by the Brothers Grimm.

Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage by the woods. Snow-White is quiet and shy and prefers to spend her time indoors, doing housework and reading. Rose-Red is outspoken, lively and cheerful, and prefers to be outside. They are both very good girls who love each other and their mother dearly, and their mother is very fond of them as well.

One winter night, a strange visitor knocks on their door, and what happens next will forever change their lives...

Note: This story is not related to the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow White that provided the basis for the 1937 Walt Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.