The Witches of Venice - Hardcover

Montresor, Beni

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385263554 ISBN 13: 9780385263559

Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 1989

Synopsis

After finding the flower plant girl in the witches' castle, a little flower plant boy helps her escape

About this title

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 3-- Montresor is an incredible artist, bringing visual magic to everything his sense of form and color touches. This book is no exception. Glowing pastels on scratchboard, the stylized cartoons have life and humor all their own. They are not enough, however. His story, a dream in fluent and graphic enough prose, has some potential, but it falls apart. In brief: the king of Venice and his queen have no son to inherit the throne. Wise men offer no hope. Fairies promise a flower child, but the king knows better and throws the potted plant out the window. The sun nurtures the plant, and a boy springs from it. Despite what his eyes tell him, the king denies the child and imprisons him in the garden. The wind and a pigeon on wheels rescue the boy, who flies to a witches' ball and rescues a flower-plant girl from a dragon and the witches. The revelers are turned upside down by the wind, which carries the boy and girl away in a mechanical bird, while the king insists, "I saw nothing." If only Montresor had told his dream to someone who can do with words what he can do with pictures. --Helen Gregory, Grosse Pointe Public Library, MI
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385263554
• ISBN 13: 9780385263559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32