Cooper Edens
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Publisher
Chronicle
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Collects folk and fairy tales about princesses, including "Rapunzel," "Sleeping Beauty," "The Frog Prince," and "The Little Mermaid." The stories are paired with magnificent artwork by some of the most renowned children's book illustrators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...