The Little Match Girl
Christine San Jose, Christine San Jose. Boyds Mills Press, $15.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-1-59078-000-8
Christine San Jos retells Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, illus. by Lithuanian artist Kestutis Kasparavicius. Finely rendered images depict the impoverished child peddling her wares on European cobblestone streets; when she lights matches to stay warm on New Year's Eve-and imagines bounty in the flames-the artwork turns effectively surreal.
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Reviewed on: 09/01/2002
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 1 pages - 978-1-56397-470-0
