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119 pp.
| Delacorte |
May, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-385-73076-4$$15.95
|
LibraryISBN 0-385-90116-X$$17.99 1988, Doubleday
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
William Geldart
&
William Geldart.
This reissue of Banks's exciting fairy story concerns a childless couple and the tiny fairy who defies the fairy queen to help the couple have a baby. The queen's revenge threatens the child, Bindi, but the good fairies triumph in the end. The infrequent black-and-white line drawings don't add much to the story, but Banks's well-constructed and varied tale can stand on its own.