Alexander Nikolayevi Afanasyev, Author, Gennady Spirin, Author, Gennady Spirin, Illustrator Dial Books $12.95 (25p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0861-7
Russia is the origin of yet another traditional folktale illustrated by Spirin, though this one does not achieve the charm of The White Cat , reviewed above. Its protagonist, lazy young Ivan, is portrayed in the choppy text as a rather uneven and...
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Ann Keay Beneduce, Author, William Shakespeare, Author, Gennady Spirin, Author Philomel Books $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-22764-6
Prospero-like in their artistry, Spirin's dazzling watercolors dominate this retelling of Shakespeare's final play. Shaped like altar panels fit for a Renaissance church or palace, the illustrations are romantic, regal and magical, richly...
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Ann Keay Beneduce, Author, Gennady Spirin, Author, Patricia Lee Gauch, Editor Philomel Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23118-6
Spirin's (The Sea King's Daughter) breathtaking illustrations for this retelling are so engrossing that readers may notice the fluidity of the text almost as an afterthought. His watercolor and tempera paintings have a hazy yet magisterially...
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Wilhelm Grimm, Author, Jacob W. Grimm, Author, Gennady Spirin, Author Philomel Books $14.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-399-21873-6
Every detail of this intricately illustrated volume seems to extol the triumph of beauty and purity, as symbolized by the lovely, fragile rose. Floral garlands adorn the book inside and out, and heart-shaped rosette wreaths frame each page number....
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Robert D. San Souci, Author, Gennady Spirin, Author, Gennady Spirin, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-531-05809-1
With this collaboration, San Souci and Spirin prove that gifted and loving hands can make old tales gloriously new again. Credited to Madame d'Aulnoy and first published in 1698, The White Cat contains many familiar (and well-loved) fairy-tale...
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Gennady Spirin, Author . Philomel $14.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-23980-9
Spirin (The Tale of the Firebird
) fans will welcome his latest book, which reveals something of his own life. One winter evening, Spirin's wife and five-year-old son, Ilya, return to their Moscow apartment with an injured crow. An earth-toned...
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Gennady Spirin, Marshall Cavendish, $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5704-6
In his retelling of the Brothers Grimm story, Spirin paints exquisitely, presenting figures in a palette of sun-faded colors with careful attention to historical detail. White pages serve as backdrops for the characters, who often stand on...
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Gennady Spirin, Author, Tatiana Popova, Translator , trans. by Tatiana Popova. Philomel $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23584-9
As elegant as any imperial treasure, this sumptuously illustrated book showcases Spirin's (The Sea King's Daughter; Philipok) near-magical artistry. Here he adapts three Russian fairy tales to coin his own version of the story of the tsar'
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Gennady Spirin, Author, Gennady Spirin, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-23981-6
A 17th-century English alphabet rhyme inspires Spirin's illustrations, which take on a distinctly Victorian tone. Set inside or outside English country houses, the full-bleed paintings and silhouette images teem with rosy-cheeked girls in long...
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Gennady Spirin, Author, Gennady Spirin, Illustrator . Marshall Cavendish $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5551-6
Delicate, ornamental images in colored pencil and watercolors, set in egg-shaped frames, accompany the lyrics to the holiday carol. The scenes are cumulative: French hens and turtle doves join the partridge in the pear tree, which is pictured in an...
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Gennady Spirin, Author, Gennady Spirin, Illustrator Marshall Cavendish Children's Books $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5596-7
In his adaptation of the Goldilocks story, Spirin's (The Lord Is My Shepherd) lush colored pencil and watercolor spreads are as elaborate as the text is simple. Against white backdrops, Goldilocks and the bears are drawn in great realistic detail,...
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Gennady Spirin, Author, Gennady Spirin, Illustrator, Gennady Spirin, Photographer Dial Books $14.95 (84p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0320-9
Exquisite paintings by the Soviet artist of Once There Was a Tree decorate and expand the texts of George MacDonald's Little Daylight, Alexander Pushkin's The Princess and the Seven Brothers, E.T.A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker, Miguel de Cervantes's...
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