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Williams, Marcia, Reteller

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

48 pp. | Candlewick | February, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-3197-0 $16.99
(2) 4-6 Williams adapts nine tales, each presented in comic-strip-style panels. A chorus provides running commentary, unobtrusively allowing the author to braid Chaucer's storytelling contest into her retelling. The bright cartoons make the most of Chaucer's bawdiness, exaggerating physical faults and reveling in potty humor. The straightforward telling reflects an oral style and allows the illustrations to carry both narrative suspense and humor.
Reviewer: Vicky Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2007

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