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32 pp.
| Holiday |
March, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-8234-1523-6$$16.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Jill Weber.
Tom, a poor wandering minstrel, trades his worn but true-sounding harp for one of gold, thinking it will improve his fortune. He becomes harpist to the king but misses the freedom of his past life. Acrylic paintings rendered in a blue-green palette with flat tilty perspectives complement this bittersweet cautionary tale set in an Irish-looking countryside.