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K-3
Illustrated by
Raul Colon.
Colón's richly textured watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations deepen the classical feel of this retelling of the myth. Pandora's curiosity about what's in the clay jar is stretched to fill this picture book and padded with Burleigh's stilted free-verse narration, but the conclusion, in which Pandora holds tight to hope and goes out to fight the evils she loosed, retains its impact.