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Quentin Blake's Magical Tales
Quentin Blake's Magical Tales | Quentin Blake, John Yeoman
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A collection of lesser-known folktales of adventure, mystery and magic includes the stories of a boy who discovers a belt that imparts amazing strength, a frog who is really a princess in disguise and a prince who flies on a magic carpet. By the creators of The Heron and the Crane.
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Quentin Blake's Magical Tales | Quentin Blake, John Yeoman
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I LOVE Quentin Blake‘s illustrations— but the actual retellings fell really flat for me. I do think it takes a very strong writer to write folktales in a way that feels both fresh and true to the original. I think the magic of folktales can disappear when that oral aspect is lost, and you have to do a lot of work to reignite that magic in a different way. That just wasn‘t done here for me. I found myself pretty bored.