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40 pp.
| Dial |
November, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8037-1642-1$17.99
(2)
K-3
Pinkney provides sumptuous watercolor, gouache, and colored-pencil illustrations that place realistic natural elements side by side with ostentatious embellishments in the eighteenth-century clothing of the human characters. Aside from switching the story’s usual ogre into a sorcerer, Pinkney sticks close to the source and uses his large pages, including a gatefold illustration, to great effect.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke
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January, 2013