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48 pp.
| Little Gestalten
| October, 2016
|
TradeISBN 978-3-89955-767-1$19.95
(2)
K-3
Adapted by Marine Tasso.
Translated by Noelia Hobeika.
This version of the traditional cautionary tale is set at Christmas (thus occasioning the book's red-and-green color scheme) and in 1283. The book uses its tall, narrow format effectively to convey the creepy atmosphere, most dramatically in a double-page spread of the rats converging on--and devouring--a boxful of poison that is no match for the creatures, who "savored the poison as if it were candy."
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2016
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