Tales from Grimm (The Classics) - Hardcover

Barber, Antonia

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9781847805096: Tales from Grimm (The Classics)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847805094 ISBN 13: 9781847805096

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2014

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In this beautifully designed volume, classic, much-loved, and universal fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm are retold with a contemporary approach for today's children, while retaining all the magic of the originals. Snow White, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel — they're all here in a gift book ready to be read over and over again.

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About the Author:

Antonia Barber’s The Ghosts was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and adapted into the film The Amazing Mr. Blunden. The Mousehole Cat was a finalist for the Smarties Prize, winner of the 1990 British Book Award, and Commended for the 1991 Kate Greenaway Medal; it was later made into an animated film. She lives in Cornwall, U.K. Margaret Chamberlain is a respected best-selling illustrator of children's books. Her works include Has Anyone Seen Jack?, Look Out He's Behind You, My Two Grannies, My Two Grandads, Made by Raffi, and Boom Baby Boom Boom. She lives in Dorset, U.K.

Review:

"Nine of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s best-known stories are retold with great fluency in this beautifully produced edition which is perfectly designed to be read aloud"

"Margaret Chamberlain's illustrations are beautiful, daintily drawn and coloured, lively, often funny. Each book has beautiful endpapers."

"Nine of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's best-known stories are retold with great fluency in this beautifully produced edition which is perfectly designed to be read aloud"