JAKOB and WILHELM GRIMM got their stories from peasants and villagers, and sometimes form already-published works from other cultures. Jakob did much of the research; Wilhelm put the stories into literary form.
BERNADETTE WATTS, known thro
Little Red Riding Hood (Kirkus)
My, what big talent she has!British artist Watts s treatment of
this Grimm Brothers favorite was first published in Europe in 1968.
Now issued with a new (sadly uncredited) English translation, it
will reach a contemporary American audience. The illustrator's
detailed, richly colored pictures bear the influence of her mentor,
Brian Wildsmith, and she demonstrates her mastery of the
picture-book form as she juxtaposes characters across the gutter at
strategic moments, employs fully saturated pages at some turns and
spot art at others, all heightening reader s focus and dramatic
tension at key points. That said, even the inclusion of the
oft-excluded scene in which the huntsman sews stones into the belly
of the doomed wolf doesn t push the story into terribly frightening
graphic content. Earlier, both Grandma and Little Red are devoured
offstage in the illustrations, and the four-picture sequence
depicting the wolf getting his comeuppance is comical rather than
gory. The old is new again here, and this is a welcome addition to
the fairy-tale shelf."
Little Red Riding Hood (Kirkus)
My, what big talent she has!British artist Watts s treatment of
this Grimm Brothers favorite was first published in Europe in 1968.
Now issued with a new (sadly uncredited) English translation, it
will reach a contemporary American audience. The illustrator's
detailed, richly colored pictures bear the influence of her mentor,
Brian Wildsmith, and she demonstrates her mastery of the
picture-book form as she juxtaposes characters across the gutter at
strategic moments, employs fully saturated pages at some turns and
spot art at others, all heightening reader s focus and dramatic
tension at key points. That said, even the inclusion of the
oft-excluded scene in which the huntsman sews stones into the belly
of the doomed wolf doesn t push the story into terribly frightening
graphic content. Earlier, both Grandma and Little Red are devoured
offstage in the illustrations, and the four-picture sequence
depicting the wolf getting his comeuppance is comical rather than
gory. The old is new again here, and this is a welcome addition to
the fairy-tale shelf."
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