Mother Holly: A Retelling from the Brothers Grimm

by John W. Stewig and John Warren Stewig

Book Overview

Two sisters--kind, industrious Rose and vain, lazy Blanche--experience two very different adventures when each tumbles down a well and into the magical world of Mother Holly. Rose's journey begins... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558589260
• ISBN13: 9781558589261
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: NorthSouth (NY)
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Devastatingly beautiful

The illustrations for this book are deeply, deeply beautiful. The details, the skies, the animals, the hills, the images -- amazing, powerful, breath-taking, and transcendent. The story is powerful and odd and compelling. We are avid childrens books people, and we own over 300 kids books, and we read them to our kids every day and night, and this is definitely in the top 10. It is gorgeous and psychedelic and lovely and one of the best.

Beautiful and enchanting for children

I agree with the other reviewer as an adult reading folktales, but as a mom to a 4 year old, I appreciate this gorgeous book. The illustrations are breathtaking and it's so refreshing to read a fairy tale that doesn't involve a princess. This story also models compassion and cooperation in dealing with sibling rivalry. I love it and, more importantly, so does my daughter.