(4) K-3 Classic Fairy Tale Collection series. Illustrated by Martin Hargreaves. This retelling, though generally unremarkable, includes some interesting details (e.g., the miller's daughter insisting that her father's boast is just his "way of saying how proud he is of me"). An appended "About the Story" provides background on the tale's origins. The paintings offer straightforward interpretations of the characters and a generic European setting.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

(4) 4-6 Dorling Kindersley Classics series. Illustrated by Martin Hargreaves. The weighty prose and social satire of Swift's novel are probably beyond the grasp of most contemporary children, so this adaptation shortens and simplifies the original work and provides margin notes filled with commentary, color photographs, and reproductions that amplify the text. Although they impede the flow of the story, the marginalia are informative and help place the novel in historical context.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Martin Hargreaves. Taking as his inspiration Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, White tells the story of an orphan named Maria who discovers a group of Lilliputians descended from those in Swift's classic and must protect them from exploitation by her governess and a conniving vicar. Full-page oil paintings as well as smaller vignettes appear throughout this charming fantasy.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute