cover image American Fairy Tales: From Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories

American Fairy Tales: From Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories

. Hyperion Books, $12.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-7868-1093-2

""Dramatic black-and-white woodcut prints add an eerie edge to the distinctive stories--by Hawthorne, Alcott, Baum, Pyle and Irving, among others--which are a cut above the more usual normalizing fairy tale retellings,"" said PW. All ages. (June)