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How the Fisherman Tricked the Genie: A Tale within a Tale within a Tale

40 pp. | Atheneum | August, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-689-83399-7 $$16.00
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Amiko Hirao. In this original fairy tale, a fisherman spins out two stories to save his life when his net brings in an angry genie. The genie, bitter over his three-thousand-year confinement in a bottle, has sworn to kill whoever releases him. The substantial text of the compound stories is well suited to the older picture book audience. Brash, bright colors and swooping curves conjure the magic world and its original yet familiar inhabitants.
Reviewer: Lauren Adams | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2002

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