DEMETRIUS AND THE GOLDEN GOBLET
illustrated by Michael Hague & by Eve Bunting
A large, elaborate production in the revivalist mode—double-page spreads in color, single-page, decoratively framed drawings in black and white—all more or less from the Maxfield Parrish era. And a long-drawn-out story with legendary trappings about a prince who yearns for the sea—dirty and dangerous, says his father, fit only for commoners—and how he learns from the young diver Demetrius that the vision is truer than the reality: a blind man had evoked the sea's beauty for the prince, Demetrius sees only sea slime. Fancy furbelows, an empty core.