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48 pp.
| Candlewick |
October, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-8122-7$17.99
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4-6
Williams successfully distills one-hundred-fifty years of English history into a picture book examining the lives of Tudor royalty, explorers, and artists. Vibrant mixed-media comic-strip-style illustrations with amusing speech bubbles illuminate the informative text narrated by a young scribe with asides from his droll ferret. In parallel, the plight of the poor runs across the bottom of spreads in a Bayeux Tapestry homage.