A child can hardly hear Hans Christian Andersen tales too often. Anderson actually lived and wrote his 156 stories in the 1800s. He died in 1875. Barrett proves as magical as Andersen's classic tale of daring. Her sky is made of gold jewelry.
Text is scattered hither and yon in circles and newspaper pages and postcards.
Her people are marvelous, almost as good as the dogs that bedeck every page. Zelinsky, who has been a Caldecott Honor medalist three times, shaped his rendering of the classic story of the long-haired girl locked in a tower from Grimms' and earlier versions of the tale. It's the hair most people remember about this story. Zelinsky's Italian Renaissance-like paintings are breathtaking in their exotic beauty and detail. Read me a story Most of these are for children age 5 and up.