Enjoyable and fun, but both the retelling and the artwork were perhaps just a wee bit too cutesy for my taste. Still, seeing Hans in his underpants was hysterical!
Don't doctor up Grimm's tales into cute picture books! Coombs messily removed powerful themes that make this a human story--the disdain of his father, and further broken promises by the first king and his daughter. All this is part of a universal theme about feeling invited/uninvited, about inhospit...
Good retelling of the Grimm tale. Attractive illustrations and design.
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