(2) K-3 Illustrated by Leonid Gore. Colonel Lightfoot's dancing is delightful, but a "waggy, braggy tongue" lessens his appeal. When the devil challenges him to dance for a patch of his own land, Lightfoot looks likely to lose until he realizes that the devil's weakness, like his own, is pride. Gore's illustrations evoke courtly eighteenth-century Virginia. A note cites several sources for this witty and nimbly paced traditional tale.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2006