Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by The Brothers Grim

Caldecott Award

Exposition: Snow White meets the Seven Dwarfs because she is hiding from the Queen and found their house to stay in. 
Conflict: The Queen wants to kill Snow White because the mirror tells the Queen that Snow White and not the Queen is the fairest person in the land. 
Rising Action: The Queen finds out that Snow White has not been killed so she decides to go kill her herself. 
Climax: The Queen ties Snow White’s clothes so tight that she can not breathe and falls into a deep sleep.  The Seven Dwarfs come home and see that Snow White’s clothes have been tied too tight and cut the ribbons.  Snow White begins to breathe again.  The Queen realizes that Snow White still isn’t dead so she deceives her again with a poisonous comb.  As soon as the comb touches Snow White’s hair she begins to die.  When the Seven Dwarfs get home they find the comb and take it out of Snow White’s hair and she wakes up.  When the Queen realizes that she still is not dead she decides to give her a poisonous apple.  Snow White takes a bite of the poisonous apple and it becomes lodged in her throat.  Snow White sleeps for a long time and the Seven Dwarfs take care of her. 
Falling Action: One day a prince comes along and takes care of Snow White. 
Resolution: The prince’s servants who are carrying Snow White stumble and when Snow White falls the poisonous apple is dislodged from her throat  Snow White lives happily ever after with the prince in his castle and the Queen dies. 
Illustrations: This book was well illustrated.  There were many realistic pictures in the book.  The pictures helped the reader understand the story while they were reading it.

Grimm, J., Grimm, W., Jarrell, R., Burkert, N. E., Tehon, A., & Egolf, R. L. (1972). Snow-White and the seven dwarfs . New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.