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Woolf, Virginia

Nurse Lugton's Curtain

32 pp. | Harcourt/Gulliver | April, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-15-205048-5 $$16.00
New ed. (1991)

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Julie Vivas. Woolf's imagination and Vivas's interpretation make a felicitous combination in this short tale--probably written in 1924 and first published in 1965--about the patterns on a curtain that come alive after Nurse Lugton, who is sewing it, falls asleep. Vivas's soft palette imaginatively reinforces the magical elements of the story in this slightly redesigned edition.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 1991