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32 pp.
| Holiday |
September, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8234-1528-1$16.95
(2)
K-3
Illustrated by
Kimberly Bulcken Root.
Oona, cast-off daughter of itinerant tinkers, longs for her own cabin. Because of Oona's lifelong unselfishness, the fairies build her one. Save for a watered-down ending, Hodges's condensed version of Ruth Sawyer's 1941 "The Wee Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-Ween" is mainly faithful to the original. Root's watercolors of thatched stone cottages and windswept wintry expanses do justice to a somewhat melancholy holiday story.