King Stork

by Howard Pyle

Book Overview

Filled with all the things a good tale should have-from fiery dragons and savage lions to a clever princess and a handsome hero-this storyteller's favorite is here paired with spectacular art from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316724408
• ISBN13: 9780316724401
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

I loved it when I was ten and I love it now

This book captured my imagination as a child and still does as an adult! I first discovered this book when I was in elementary school combing the shelves of my public library. When I found it, it was old and worn and someone had scribbled in it. It was smaller than typical children's books and I felt like it was somehow special. I loved the decapitated heads, weirdly see-through gown and bizzare (sexual?) details in the wood carving! I loved how dark the book was and as a budding feminist I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the ending. I chocked it up to Howard Pyle's old-fashioned sensibilities and felt honored that the editor had trusted my child-intellect enough that they had left the ending as it was and not changed it into something more modern/politically correct. I think kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for. I know as a child I loved it when fairy tales were scary and awful and gory. This is one of my all time favorite books.

As a child, I LOVED this book

In regards to this book not being for children, I found this book in my school's library as an eight or nine year old. The story, but especially the illustrations, caught my imagination. Each illustration is a work of art with amazing details that you can get lost in. This book inspired my own sensabilities as an artist, and for years I wanted nothing else than to be as great an illustrator as Trina Schart Hyman.Depending on your child, this book could be an inspiration. Too bad it is so difficult to find these days.

A KEEPER

The combination of Pyle's amusing prose and Hyman's lovely artwork makes this rags-to-riches tale a joy to read. Warning: It is definitely not politically correct; feminists will probably by totally appalled.