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illustrated by Olga Dugina & Andrei Dugin, retold by Arnica Esterl |
Floris |
9780863157745 |
September 2010 |
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The well-known traditional tale about a woodcutter’s son on a mission to pluck three feathers from a dragon’s back. The book was first published in German as Die Drachenfederen in 1993, and Floris Books is to be congratulated for bringing it to an English reading audience (translation by Polly Dawson) because the illustrations by the husband-and-wife illustrating team are exceptionally good and, on some of the spreads at least, medieval in their attention to detail. |
Archives for July 2010
The Glass Demon
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Helen Grant |
Penguin |
978-0-141-32576-7 |
May 2010 |
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At times I had to keep reminding myself that Lin and Michel are both in their late teens (indeed, Michel drives them both around in his car) because their manner is not the teenage manner as more usually portrayed in contemporary young adult literature, and also because the adventure that unfolds is, for all its menace and melodrama, very much in the mould of younger children going out and attempting to solve a mystery without adult intervention. |