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Bedtime Stories
Bedtime Tales with a Twist
By Gliori, Debi
- ISBN
- 978-0-78948-861-9
- Publisher
- New York : DK Pub., 2002.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2003
PreS-Gr 2 A collection of familiar folktales. The three Aesop's fables are retold in forced-sounding verse. For example, "The Tortoise and the Hare" limply concludes, "The Tortoise being winner/against all the odds/proves that victory lies/in the lap of the gods." The prose retellings are bogged down with wordy descriptions and questionable details. The three little pigs are friends, not brothers, and Gliori cynically notes that Porkstone's ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
