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Sparks Fly High: The Legend of Dancing Point

40 pp. | Farrar/Kroupa | October, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-374-34452-3 $16.00
(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

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