Such an adorable collection! It's made for kids, so the poems are mostly short and all cute, as are the accompanying illustrations.I love the ocean, so I really had to pick this up when I saw it. It's the size of a typical picture book at just 32 pages. The poems felt a little stacked all over each ...
very cute book ☺
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...
3.5 starsNot quite as good as its predecessor, but very close and another delightful adventure. Practically everyone is back, for some length of time, esp. the bandits and Gorba and of course, Laddy, who is rapidly growing up. Good times, fun, magical adventure.
Very fun and just a perfect summer read. Entertaining and clever, it reminded me a lot of Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles, especially the treatment of magic-users and princes.Princess Margaret, Meg to her friends, is offered up as a prize in her kingdom's contest to rid the land of a...
Very well done. Humor, character development, fun story, good characters, and so much more. A lovely read. Really good. Recommended.
Wonderful poems and stunning illustrations.
Good retelling of the Grimm tale. Attractive illustrations and design.
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