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The Bernadette Watts Collection: Stories and Fairy Tales
317 pp.
| North-South |
February, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7358-4212-0$34.95
(4)
K-3
"She is a master in choosing a palette to fit each story," Eric Carle observes in his brief introduction. Readers can decide for themselves if they agree: the eponymous collection gathers folktales, fables, Andersen tales, and more. Each of these previously published stories has been redesigned to fit on fewer pages; the number of illustrations for each is, by necessity, greatly reduced as well.