Three Sillies and 10 Other Stories to Read Aloud

Anne F. Rockwell. HarperCollins Publishers, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-443093-7

Rockwell has adapted 11 classic nursery tales and provided her paintings for each, with such favorites as ""The Tortoise and the Hare,'' ``The Bremen Town Musicians'' and ``The Old Woman and Her Pig.'' PW called her watercolors ``bright, funny and immensely appealing,'' and found her prose ``lively and rhythmic.'' (All ages)

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