Swan Lake
by Lisbeth Zwerger
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A prince's love for a swan queen overcomes an evil sorcerer's spell in this fairy tale adaptation of the classic ballet.Tags
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The story is what it is - most famous ballets & operas just don't work for me, at least as picture-books, so if you love the story, you'll be fine with this version. But I don't care for the art at all, my own opinion, and the font of the text is unnecessarily difficult to read. If you're interested, by all means judge for yourself, but I neither cared much for it nor can recommend it. However, I do appreciate that Zwerger found that Tchaikovsky intended the happy ending and so worked it in.
The pictures in this book are very creative and caputure th eye. I would talk with my students about the art with the diferent colors and shapes the picture include.
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Lisbeth Zwerger was born in Vienna in 1954. After studying at the Applied Arts Academy of Vienna she became an award-winning illustrator. Her style is similar to that of English illustrators of the 19th century. In 1990 she won the the Hans Christian Andersen Medal as well as special recognition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Her Noah's Ark, show more Little Red Cap and The Wizard of Oz were all selected by The New York Times as a "Best Illustrated Books of the Year." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Odette; Prince Siegfried
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- Languages
- Dutch, English
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- Paper, Audiobook
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