The Juniper Tree
And Other Tales from Grimm
Grimm, Jacob (EDT)
Sendak, Maurice (ILT)
Jarrell, Randall (EDT)
Lore, Segal
Grimm, Wilhelm (EDT)
Segal, Lore Groszmann (EDT)
Hardcover
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
A one-volume hardcover edition for the 30th anniversary
Originally published as a two-volume set thirty years ago, The Juniper Tree is distinguished first by the selection of stories. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak have jointly culled 27 from
the 210 in the complete collection, and their contents page presents a fascinating critical statement. The translations are another distinguishing quality of the Segal/Sendak edition. Both translators have been painstakingly faithful to the German texts; they have not cut, "retold," or bowdlerized. In addition, Segal and Jarrell bring to their renderings of Grimm the grace and precision that are characteristic of their own original prose. This must-have edition for every home library is jacketed and cloth-bound and has a bookmark ribbon.
AUTHOR BIO
Lore Segal has written numerous books for young readers, including Tell Me a Mitzi and, most recently, Morris the Artist. She lives in New York City.
Maurice Sendak has received the Caldecott Medal, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the National Medal of Arts.
BOOK REVIEWS
"A work of art, a work of love, a collector's item." - ChicagoTribune Book World
"Maurice Sendak has drawn what must be some of his finest pictures for this book . . . The Juniper Tree returns Grimm to the whole family." - The Boston Globe
"[Segal and Sendak] favor the odd, the pungent, the ambiguous; their Grimm has a salty, unfamiliar taste . . . Segal's translations achieve the spoken quality the Grimms aimed for . . . Sendak's drawings are monumental, hypnotic . . . I only wish the Segal-Sendak Grimm had existed when I was young."- Walter Clemons, Newsweek
"[An] uncommon collection of 27 folktales - among them the strangest, most grotesque, mysterious and haunting in Grimm. The pictures are superb, and come from the darker, stranger side of [Sendak's] genius." - The New York Times Book Review
"The abiding value of the Segal/Sendak collection is that it can be read over and over, and each time one will discover a sparkling mot juste that Mrs. Segal has implanted in the text, and each time the study of Mr. Sendak's drawings will show forth a felicity not seen before. These two geniuses soar and dance together in the empyrean." - The New Yorker
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374339716
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374339715
Copyright: 2003
Dewey Decimal: 398.2
Library of Congress: 2003103881
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 368
Paper Weight (lb): 1.26
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