King Stork

Howard Pyle, Howard Pyles. Little Brown and Company, $6.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-316-72441-8

The King of Storks befriends a drummer boy and helps him woo a princess. PW was surprised to find ""such a sexy, bare-breasted lass as the princess in a children's book,'' but added that the illustrations ``capture the essence ofthe characters from the classic story.''(68)

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