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Porte, Barbara Ann

Beauty and the Serpent: Thirteen Tales of Unnatural Animals

119 pp. | Simon | October, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-689-84147-7 $$17.00
(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Rosemary Feit Covey. An eccentric librarian, as well as a few guests visiting the library, relate a series of narratives to students at an alternative high school. The stories--which concern old women transformed into squirrels, fish reborn as humans, and crows and roosters that viciously attack--are uneven in quality and contain unnecessarily convulted devices. Readers will be drawn to the subject matter, however, and to the illustrative engravings.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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