Jules Cash, Author, Edith Nesbit, Author, Jules Cashford, Author Shambhala Publications $15 (29p) ISBN 978-1-56957-909-1
Wonderfully rich Egyptian myths inspire this volume, but they are mummified in an impenetrable presentation. As Cashford notes in a lofty introduction, the myth describes ``the origin of the universe . . . and of the elements necessary to life . . .
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Edith Nesbit, Author, Inga Moore, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1579-6
Abridged and illustrated by Inga Moore, E. Nesbit's The Book of Beasts, originally published in 1900, makes a handsome picture-book edition. A boy king, fascinated by the Palace library, unwittingly unlocks a magical world lying dormant between...
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Edith Nesbit, Author, L. Zwerger, Author, Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator Michael Neugebauer Book $15.95 (25p) ISBN 978-0-88708-005-0
Consistently honored at the Bologna Fair, winner of a gold medal at the International Biennial of Illustration, Bratislava, Zwerger was also nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. The artist's wonderful pastel paintings re-create the...
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Edith Nesbit, Author, L. Zwerger, Author, Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator NorthSouth $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55858-623-9
redelivered Two books illustrated by Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger are being reissued in dual editions: The Deliverers of Their Country by E. Nesbit, a tale of two children who save England from an unwelcome dragon infestation, and the uncanny and
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Edith Nesbit, Author, L. Zwerger, Author, Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator NorthSouth $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55858-612-3
redelivered Two books illustrated by Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger are being reissued in dual editions: The Deliverers of Their Country by E. Nesbit, a tale of two children who save England from an unwelcome dragon infestation, and the uncanny and
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Edith Nesbit, Author, H. R. Millar, Illustrator, Peter Glassman, Afterword by Seastar Books $14.95 (180p) ISBN 978-1-58717-105-5
And, the book from which it sprung, The Book of Dragons, which includes eight dragon stories originally published in The Strand magazine (according to an afterword), is available once more with H.R. Millar's original b&w illustrations and an ...
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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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