THE BEARSKINNER

by Brothers Grimm ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 9, 1978

Accompanied by broadly sketched, loosely brushed watercolors is the Grimms' romantic story of the penniless ex-soldier who takes up the devil's challenge to go unwashed and uncombed and cloaked in a bearskin for seven years--and, nonetheless, Beauty-and-the-Beast-like, wins a worthy, wealthy bride. The pictures have a certain artistic elan but--in the absence of scene-setting detail and developed compositions--no great pictorial interest and, moreover, virtually no dramatic impact, fearful or tender or otherwise. Among fairy-tale picturizations, the next thing to a washout.

Pub Date: Sept. 9, 1978

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Atheneum (Margaret K. MeElderry)

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1978

Categories: CHILDREN'S