Saved. Check Saved Reviews
32 pp.
| Andersen
| September, 2009
|
Trade
ISBN 978-0-7613-5152-8
$16.95
Reissue (1979, Greenwillow)
(
2)
K-3
Illustrated by
Quentin Blake.
Told in the manner of a folktale, the story relates how seven washerwomen, disgruntled with their jobs, go berserk. They splash passersby with muddy water, raise havoc in the marketplace, etc.--until meeting their matches in seven woodcutters. The expressive illustrations--caricature line drawings washed with color--continuously echo and expand the preposterous, joyful text's often understated humor.