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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSRose and Snow are sisters who once lived in a grand house with a mother who sculpted and painted and a father who built things and loved to travel. Everything changes when their father rides into the woods one day and never comes home. His horse returns alone, and the ledgers and pipe in his saddlebag are untouched, but his watch, his blanket, and his knife have all gone missing. With their fortune gone too, Snow, Rose, and their mother move into a small stone cottage at the edge of the very woods that took him. Snow is quick-tempered and refuses to believe her father is really gone, while Rose is careful and endlessly curious about the path she has been told never to leave. Once the sisters start exploring anyway, they find a forest full of things that should not exist, from a library stocked with strange objects instead of books to a boy who lives underground and grows glowing mushrooms to animals far bigger than nature ever intended. Snow & Rose, Emily Winfield Martin's novel-length retelling of the fairy tale Snow-White and Rose-Red, follows the sisters through a forest that keeps handing them more mysteries than answers.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Snow & Rose
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Snow & Rose. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book do outlaws called the Bandits of No Man's Land chase two girls off the path?
✓ Answer
Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
Snow was spying on the ragged band from the hillside when Earl Grey hissed and gave the sisters away. Running from those men is what first drives Snow and Rose off the safe path and deep into the forest.
- First half
In what book does a boy find his own lost button and carved whistle on a library shelf?
✓ Answer
Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
Ivo climbs the spiral staircase on his first visit and keeps calling down that these things belong to him, and the Librarian only answers maybe, maybe not. He is too polite to argue, so he takes a library card and keeps the whistle his papa carved.
- First half
In what book does a cat named Earl Grey turn out to be a girl with three kittens?
✓ Answer
Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
In the middle of Snow's birthday party the cat hisses, circles the room, and finally flops down near the hearth. The family builds a nest of blankets, and out come three kittens, one black, one white, and one gray striped like their mother.
- Second half
In what book does a little man howl "Mutilated!" after his beard is cut?
✓ Answer
Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
The girls have just saved the Little Man from drowning, and cutting his whiskers was the only way to free him. Instead of thanking them he calls them thieves and savage girls, which is exactly the ingratitude that makes Snow want to throw him back in the river.
- Second half
In what book does a wounded bear leave deep claw grooves in a cottage's wooden floor?
✓ Answer
Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
The bear comes to the cottage in the middle of the night, far worse off than before, and half falls through the door. Edith nearly drives him out with a kitchen knife until the girls throw themselves between them.
- Near the end
In what book do sisters spot their father's tattered red blanket deep in a frozen bramble patch?
✓ Answer
Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
Walking to Ivo's house on Christmas morning, the girls see a flash of red against the white and pull out one of the three things missing from their father's saddlebag. Birds had pulled threads from it for their nests, and it comes apart in their mother's hands.
