George MacDonald, Author, Dorothee Duntze, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0493-9
Decked out in gowns of flowing brilliance, a host of good fairies offers gifts to a royal couple's first born, fortuitously named Little Daylight. But an uninvited fairy arrives and casts a spell: the child will sleep through the day and wake at...
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George MacDonald, Author, Katie T. Treherne, Illustrator, Robin McKinley, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (43p) ISBN 978-0-15-245300-8
McKinley's deft adaptation trims the story without sacrificing the witty vitality of MacDonald's 19th century original. The story of a bewitched princess (gravity does not affect her) and the prince who will sacrifice his life for her is presented...
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George MacDonald, Author, Erick Ingraham, Author, Erick Ingraham, Illustrator William Morrow & Company $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06300-9
Like Sleeping Beauty, the princess in MacDonald's tale is cursed at her christening by a jealous fairy. Little Daylight can awaken only at night, and her beautry must wax and wane with the moon until ``a prince comes who shall kiss her without...
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Edited by Marianne Wright. Plough Publishing, $18 trade paper (358p) ISBN 978-0-87486-766-4
Scottish author George MacDonald was a major influence on famous writers such as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, W.H. Auden, and G.K. Chesterton, but was remarkably unheralded during his own time and quietly toiled at his vocation as a writer for...
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George MacDonald, illus. by Jane Dyer. Random House, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-553-50919-9
Based on a classic paean from British author George MacDonald, this picture book celebrates the wonder of welcoming a child. The poem takes a lyrical q&a format: “Where did you get those eyes so blue?/ Out of the sky as I came through.” Dyer infuses
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