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Winter, Jonah

The Fabulous Feud of Gilbert & Sullivan

40 pp. | Scholastic/Levine | April, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-439-93050-5 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Richard Egielski. Winter's jaunty text follows a time when Sullivan became tired of setting Gilbert's repetitious plots to music--a conflict resolved by composition of The Mikado. Egielski's vibrantly colored illustrations, with crisp black outlines and a deep Victorian palette, display a wealth of detail--especially effective when using cutaways to show the theater (onstage, backstage, audience, and even the street outside).

Reviewer: Lolly Robinson | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2009