{"product_id":"white-as-milk-red-as-blood-the-forgotten-fairy-tales-of-franz-xaver-von-schnwerth","title":"White as Milk  Red as Blood: The Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schnwerth","description":"\u003cp\u003eFerocious. And funny  and moving  and delightful . . . Illustrated with wonderful freedom and zestful inventiveness. Philip Pullman from the Foreword  This striking  richly illustrated edition of long-lost German fairy tales is not a book for children. It is a book for adults. Or for adults to frighten children into behaving...whichever you prefer.  In 2009  a trove of lost fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schnwerth--a 19th-century collector of Bavarian folk tales and contemporary of the Brothers Grimm--was unearthed in a municipal archive in Germany. Unlike the Grimms  who polished the stories they collected  adapting to contemporary tastes  von Schnwerth recorded the stories as they were told  plucking them directly from the living  breathing tree of oral storytelling  retaining their darker themes and sometimes shocking violence. Von Schnwerth published a single volume of these tales in his lifetime  but the vast majority languished and were forgotten over the years  effectively frozen in time until their recent rediscovery. Now  award-winning illustrator Willow Dawson  in collaboration with translator Shelley Tanaka  has brought these long-lost tales unforgettably to life  illuminating with striking woodcut-style illustrations a spectacular collection that will change the way you look at fairy tales forever. Paired with Dawsons arresting artwork  the stories in White as Milk  Red as Blood race with palpable energy through fantasy landscapes darker  bawdier and racier than anything we find in Disney or the Grimms. Following the tradition of illustrated fairy-tale collections  White as Milk  Red as Blood is the very first fully illustrated  full-colour edition of Franz Xaver von Schnwerths work. It is a timeless tome of enchantment and foreboding: tales--as haunting as they are profound--of powerful princesses  helpless men  lecherous villains  virtuous girls  witches  giants  at least one female serial killer  mer-people  shape-shifters and talking beasts--a kaleidoscope of wonders both familiar and entirely new; rich and strange. Dawson and Tanakas dark and lively take on von Schnwerths collected tales will appeal to fans of Mike Mignolas classic fantasy comic-book series Hellboy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949420998709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345812174","price":226.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345812179_4e258ca1-000e-44be-a568-7e7aff242415.jpg?v=1770467472","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/white-as-milk-red-as-blood-the-forgotten-fairy-tales-of-franz-xaver-von-schnwerth","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}