Was It a Good Trade?
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. HarperCollins Publishers, $15.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-06-029359-8
Irene Haas, illustrator of Beatrice Schenk de Regniers's folk song adaptation Was It a Good Trade?, has traded in her preseparated art from the original 1956 publication for all-new art in a May reissue. At 10"" x 6"", the volume retains the horizontal shape of its predecessor, and many of Haas's compositions closely resemble her originals, with multiple vignettes on a single spread suggesting the protagonist's bartering actions. The tidy lines and solid color fields of the 1956 edition, however, have yielded to a profusion of patterns in lush colors, with every detail welcoming in readers. (May)
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Reviewed on: 05/01/2002
Genre: Children's