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Craft, Charlotte

King Midas and the Golden Touch

32 pp. | Morrow | April, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-688-13165-4 $$16.00 | Library ISBN 0-688-13166-2 $$15.93
(3) K-3 Illustrated by K. Y. Craft. This sophisticated retelling, set in the Middle Ages, places King Midas in a sumptuous palace and portrays him as a goodhearted, devoted father with an unfortunate obsession for gold. The elaborate oil-over-watercolor illustrations show the wondrous, tragic effects of the golden touch, as Midas's bedcovers, his garden, and then his daughter turn gradually to gold before the reader's eyes.
Reviewer: Martha Sibert

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