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About Edith Nesbit
See more books from this AuthorWhile adult readers will keenly miss that richness, new young readers will probably enjoy the story of young Lionel, taken from his building blocks when the news comes that his many-greats-grandfather has died and he must be king.
| Read Full Review of Book of DragonsYet her masterful, matter-of-fact juxtaposition of the ordinary, the fabulous and the wildly ridiculous is in disarming evidence throughout -- whether in details such as the "universal tap room" wherein two children, the "Deliverers of Their Country," turn on the rain taps and wash a horde of inv...
May 03 2012 | Read Full Review of Book of DragonsRendered in ink, oil pastels and oil paint, Moore's stunning illustrations spill over with a humor that also pervades in the text (e.g., ""Master Lionel, dear, they've come to fetch you to go and be king,"" reads Nurse's thought bubble on the first page).
| Read Full Review of Book of DragonsAnd, the book from which it sprung, The Book of Dragons, which includes eight dragon stories originally published in The Strand magazine (according to an afterword), is available once more with H.R.
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