(2) K-3 Illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber. A camel suffers under hard-driving master Halim. The Prophet Muhammad comforts the beast, and the camel weeps. Its tears "sifted into Halim's dream," and Halim too weeps and awakes filled with compassion. This tale "inspired by a hadith" (an "account of the Prophet's words or actions passed from generation to generation") resonates with universal meaning. The story is beautifully supported by desert-hued full-bleed monoprints.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2014

(3) YA Translated by Hugh Hazelton. Illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber. With drypoint and monoprint illustrations washed in muted but emotive colors, this is a free-verse, present-tense retelling of the librettos of Wagner's great Ring Cycle. Although there is nothing that marks this particularly as a book for young people, it would be an accessible and dramatic introduction for newcomers to the operas.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber. Lottridge recounts thirty-five incidents from the four Gospels, collating them into a single chronology and providing citations to chapter and verse. The narration is straightforward, with dialogue close to the biblical text; Lottridge has added descriptions of the action, in the manner of movie novelizations. The full-page art is eclectic in its visual references and various in its treatment. Attractive, accessible, and nonsectarian.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2004

(2) YA Illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber & Linda Wolfsgruber. Echlin describes Inanna as a lovely, irresistible Sumerian goddess who wins the "powers of civilization" from the earth god (in a drinking contest), and later, after visiting the underworld, is a destroyer as well. In this lively verse retelling, the poems are arranged chronologically. The spare, elegant drawings in the beautifully designed book are washed in earth tones and set in adroitly suggested landscapes.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2004