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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
My favorite children's picture book of all time, a story of faith and love overcoming all.
Beautiful and painstaking illustrations for a dismal and sentimental story.
The illustrations are amazing. They’re so lush; I’ve never seen anything quite like them. I’m not the biggest Sendak fan but I love his illustrations in this book. The story is dark, grim, as are many Grimm stories. I wouldn’t recommend this one for most very young children unless first screened by their adults to determine its suitability, but the story was lovely in its own way. I enjoyed it. I’d thought I’d read this in about 1991 but it didn’t seem that familiar to me so I’m considering this my first reading.
So I had a huge review. But then my phone glitched. Forget this... Pictures are pretty! This story is good up to the ending where it just gets depressing.
Out of all the books available in the Contemporary Jewish Museum's store, I purchased this one, primarily because Sendak's artwork here is gorgeously rich and detailed, and also because it is a Wilhelm Grimm story. It's my bed time story for tonight.
Grimm stories never turn out quite how I expect them. This one was both sad and sweet. And as I mentioned before, the illustrations are absolutely beautiful. I never knew Sendak was so skilled.
Grimm stories never turn out quite how I expect them. This one was both sad and sweet. And as I mentioned before, the illustrations are absolutely beautiful. I never knew Sendak was so skilled.
Someone gave my family a copy of this book, and I remember loving it and hating it both, as a child. Such a terrifying concept, if you're a child devoted to her mother.
An additional fairy tale from Wilhelm Grimm discovered in 1983, masterfully illustrated by Maurice Sendak. The story itself is a grim one *boom-tish* but the preface to it that begins with "Dear Mili" is beautiful. And Sendak's lush surrealism is just wonderful.