The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Ruth Sanderson

Although the king locked the twelve princesses in their bedroom each night, every morning their twelve pairs of dancing shoes were found to be worn quite through, as if they had been danced in all night long! The king proclaimed that anyone who discovered the secret of the worn-out shoes could marry the princess of his choice. Long ago, in the days of princesses, castles, and magic spells, there lived a king and his twelve daughters. Ruth Sanderson retells the tale of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and how their secret is eventually discovered. A BEAUTIFUL RETELLING OF THE CLASSIC BROTHERS GRIMM TALE WITH LAVISH FULL-COLOR OIL PAINTINGS. Tikvah: children's book creators reflect on human rights. ''Magic Pillow' values wisdom over riches.' The Leaf-Chronicle (TN). 'Ruth Sanderson's 'Dancing Princesses' head to Norman Rockwell Museum'. 'Crocodile Books Gives Out-of-Print Titles a New Lease on Life'. Continuum International Publishing Group. The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Sanderson's illustrations have been described as evocative of the past but employing a '21st century approach to texture and brightness.' References īrowse the LC Online Catalog from her Name Authority File and sort by publication date. In the catalog her earliest works as a writer are two published in 1990, a retelling of ' The Twelve Dancing Princesses' and an original fairy tale, The Enchanted Wood (Little, Brown, LCCN 90-45096).

LC catalog credits Sanderson as a writer primarily for retelling fairy tales, along with some stories from the Bible or about Christmas or about saints. She illustrated new editions of several young-adult novels in the Nancy Drew and Bobbsey Twins mystery series. The latter was discussed at the time in terms of how the art reflected 'the stereotypes of masculine strength and feminine weakness in vogue when it was written'. Putnam's Sons) in 1975 and four including an edition of The Little Engine That Could in 1976.

Sanderson's earliest works were published in her mid-twenties: Grandma's Beach Surprise by Ilka List (G. Sanderson demonstrating clayboard and scratchboard art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2019.

The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Ruth Sanderson