Carol Heyer, Author, Carol Heyer, Retold by Ideals Publications $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8249-8439-7
Using Easter celebrations as her frame--and drawing on all four Gospels, Heyer presents a workmanlike compression of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus into a standard picture book format. Her vividly colored paintings are the book's best...
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Carol Heyer, Author, Carol Heyer, Illustrator Ideals Publications $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8249-8579-0
Charles Perrault's classic is given an Elizabethan setting in this retelling. Ages 5-8. (Aug.)
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Carol Heyer, Author, Carol Heyer, Illustrator Ideals Publications $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8249-8634-6
Heyer (Rapunzel) draws on complex traditional materials to produce merely a conventional tale with a happy ending. Here, Robin Hood and the Merry Men's ``favorite pastime of waylaying a traveler with whom to share their evening meal'' leads to...
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Carol Heyer, Author, Carol Heyer, Illustrator, Jacob W. Grimm, Joint Author Ideals Publications $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8249-8558-5
A condensed, almost studiously faithful version of the Grimm folktale forms the text for this flawed picture book--though this retelling significantly omits the twins Rapunzel first gives birth to. Heyer ( Excalibur ; Beauty and the Beast ) sets...
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