Classic Treats That Never Grow Old
By Bianca Schulze & Phoebe Vreeland, The Children’s Book Review
Published: November 6, 2010
You love to give books as gifts, but you want to give a book that will be cherished and kept to be shared with future generations. Right? What you’re looking for is a classic. Something well-written, tried and tested, but perhaps with updated illustrations that will tantalize any young mind. Feast your eyes on the following delights …
Snow White: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm
by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Charles Santore (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 6-9
Hardcover: 48 pages
Publisher: Sterling (October 5, 2010)
Source: Publisher
Complete with a beautifully patterned ribbon marker, this is a nice retelling of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale, Snow White, illustrated by award-winning artist Charles Santore. Santore has also illustrated an Aesop’s Fables, The Wizard of Oz and The Little Mermaid.
Add this book to your collection: Snow White: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm
by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Authors), Dorothée Duntze (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 24 pages
Publisher: North-South Books (September 1, 2005)
Source: Publisher
A softer version of the original Grimm tale. The illustrations are happy and sunny.
Add this book to your collection: Rapunzel
Selected and illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: North-South Books; illustrated edition edition (April 1, 2006)
Source: Publisher
This is not the ultimate collection of Aesop’s Fables, however, it is a cleanly illustrated compendium carefully selected by the uber-award-winning artist Lisbeth Zwerger.
Add this book to your collection: Aesop’s Fables
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