The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics)
Grade 4-6?Done in picture-book format, this retelling is, of necessity, reduced to its bare bones, but the essentials of the complex plot have been captured. The pictures, full of action and crowded with scenes of the Parisian mob, the Festival of Fools, and the airy heights of the cathedral are skillfully drawn and colored with pale hues. Quasimodo's crooked figure and distorted face are appropriately repulsive, a foil to Esmeralda's grace and beauty. Middle grade readers familiar with the Disney movie will particularly enjoy this spin-off of the original novel.?Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.