The Horn Book Guide

RELIGION

Visconti, Guido

Clare and Francis

40 pp. | Eerdmans | February, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-8028-5269-6 $$20.00

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Bimba Landmann. With gold-accented paintings that combine a medieval sense of perspective with modern contrasts of color, this illustrated book is sumptuous in its own particular way. As retold here, the story of Francis and Clare is sometimes oblique and disjointed; that fact and the sophisticated art probably demand an audience already familiar with the lives of these saints. Two translations of the "Canticle of Brother Sun" are appended. Timeline

Reviewer: Roger Sutton