Books by Ursula Jones and Complete Book Reviews
Ursula Jones, Author, Russell Ayto, Illustrator , illus. by Russell Ayto. Holt $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7205-1
When the witch's three children enter the park, the pigeons and squirrels know trouble is coming. The prophecy proves correct: when the toy boat belonging to their friend Gemma capsizes in the pond, the Eldest One helpfully changes her into a...
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Ursula Jones, illus. by Sarah Gibb. Albert Whitman, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-0600-4
Galloping horses, lace cuffs, magnificent gowns, snow-covered forests, ivied turrets, and bowers of roses adorn the pages of this version of the fairy tale, first published in 2012 in the U.K. Gibb offers lacy b&w silhouettes and rosy, dramatically...
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Ursula Jones, illus. by Sarah Gibb. Albert Whitman, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-6630-5
In a fairy-tale collaboration first published in 2009 in the U.K., Jones and Gibb introduce a princess in search of her kingdom. “It must be somewhere,” she muses to her horse. Shabby but still soignée (her loveliness and balletic bearing bring to...
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Diana Wynne Jones, completed by Ursula Jones. Greenwillow, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-229507-1
Set in a luminous and beguiling magical land, this standalone novel was begun by acclaimed fantasist Wynne Jones before her death in 2011 and has been seamlessly completed by her sister Ursula, an actress and writer. Just a day after Eileen seems to
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