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Campbell, Ann-Jeanette

Dora's Box

32 pp. | Knopf | July, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-679-87642-1 $$17.00 | Library ISBN 0-679-97642-6 $$18.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Fabian Negrin. In an elegant tale based on the Greek mythological character Pandora, a witch grants a young couple their wish to have a child. Dora's protective parents place tokens of everything that is evil and sad into a box so their child will never know unhappiness. Dora eventually opens the box, learning the compassion that accompanies knowledge of evil as well as goodness. Spare, richly hued pictures suit a story that is both fairy tale and fable.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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