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The little jewel box
By Mayer, Marianna & Tomes, Margot
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80370-148-9
- Publisher
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1986.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1986
Gr 1-3 This original fairy tale mixes folk tale elements in a new way, although not always keeping to traditional patterns. Isabel dreams of adventure and leaves home with a bad luck cake from her mother and a magic jewel box that can save her from death from her father. She arrives at a large house where she and the master's son, John, fall in love against the wishes of John's father, who assigns Isabel two (not three) impossible tasks to perform. Three little men from the jewel box perform these tasks,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
