Howard Pyle, Author, John James, Author, John James, Illustrator Dial Books $13.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0824-2
Kinetic paper engineering more than compensates for the lackluster abridgment of Howard Pyle's classic The Story of King Arthur and His Knights in this eyecatching pop-up book. Six dynamic spreads are further animated by columns that unfold on each...
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Howard Pyle, Author, Ellin Greene, Author, Robert Sauber, Illustrator Holiday House $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1088-0
Retelling this late-19th-century story, Greene retains the feel and form of traditional folktale-so useful to storytellers-as well as Pyle's (1853-1911) conversational tone. When a king discovers that his tree is being pilfered of its golden pears,...
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Howard Pyle, Author, Trina Schart Hyman, Illustrator HarperCollins $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-09837-7
Decidedly American and far sunnier than the Grimms' tale of the same name, this is the first of Pyle's original tales in The Wonder Clock (published in 1887). A king casts the miller's son into the wilderness to avert a wise man's prophecy that the...
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Howard Pyles, Author, Howard Pyle, Author, Trina Schart Hyman, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-72441-8
The King of Storks befriends a drummer boy and helps him woo a princess. PW was surprised to find ""such a sexy, bare-breasted lass as the princess in a children's book,'' but added that the illustrations ``capture the essence ofthe characters from...
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