This is the tale of Snow White, transposed to New York in the 1920s%Snow White's wicked stepmother uses her position of influence in the city's underworld to contract the killing of Snow White%But the hired gun cannot shoot Snow White and abandons her instead to wander the streets%She stumbles into a club where the seven jazz-men take pity on her and she joins their band%A reporter who hears her sing propels her into the headlines %%%but her fame puts her once again in the sights of her evil stepmother%She is poisoned with a cocktail cherry%A shocked city mourns the death of the beautiful and talented Snow White but as her coffin is carried up the church steps%the grief-stricken jazz-men, Snow White's eyes open and her gaze is met%the reporter%They fall in love and live happily ever after%Fiona French's iconic re-imagining of a classic fairy tale, with stunning Art Deco illustrations, won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1986.