Edith Nesbit, Author, E. Nesbit, Author, P. J. Lynch, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $7.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0717-3
With elements of Rapunzel crossed with Gulliver's Travels, the story of Melisande features a princess, cursed with baldness by a bad fairy, who gets her wish to grow lots of hair--with a vengeance. Ages 5-up. (Apr.)
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Edith Nesbit, Author, E. Nesbit, Author, Edward Ardizzone, Illustrator Dial Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0476-3
The only autobiography that the author of The Railway Children and Five Children and It, etc., left behind was this novella-length work, a generous and sympathetic look at the forces in her childhood that both shaped early fears or implanted a...
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Edith Nesbit, Author, E. Nesbit, Author, Elroy Hughes, Illustrator Dial Books $10.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0474-9
The look of these books is decidedly old-fashioned, from the paste-on illustration on the cloth cover to the style of the illustrations. The stories are as imaginative and witty as any reader would expect of E. Nesbit, but the artists have really...
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