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The Sorcerer's Apprentice Willard, Nancy; Dillon, Leo (illustrator); Dillon, Diane (illustrator)
0590473298 / 9780590473293 Good.
Hardcover. Large hardcover with dustjacket, published 1993 by Scholastic. Noticeable average wear to jacket: tiny puncture on front. Very clean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Ca. 30 pages (pages not numbered); handsome full-page color illustrations. Language: English. For ages ca. 6-10. NOTE: Large format-- cannot ship outside U.S. via Flat-Rate envelope; requires additional international postage. 'The old story of the powerful magician and the awkward apprentice who messes with the magic has been told again and again from ancient Greece to Goethe to Disney's Fantasia. In this version for the 1990s, the apprentice-hero is a confident young woman. With long red hair, checked trousers, and high-heeled clogs, Sylvia comes riding up to the sorcerer's mountain on an old-fashioned large-wheeled bike. As in her 1982 Newbery Medal-winning A Visit to William Blake's Inn, Willard tells her story in lively rhyme that jumps with the unexpected. The Dillons' full-page watercolors, exquisitely drawn in meticulous detail, show domestic uproar just about to burst out of the tight gold frames. In fact, there are a few tiny spot illustrations outside the frame on each page. The sorcerer's house has 57 doors and knockers made of gnashing teeth; there are eyes everywhere, and his creatures are neurotic, brooding, sinister, and clownish. Words and pictures work together perfectly to make us see that chaos is very near; everything is in a state of transformation. The more you look, the more shapes change and slither and leap out as something different. The best scene of all shows the sorcerer ordering the dishes to wash each other (The spoons leapt up and scrubbed the plates). He's in control. In contrast, when Sylvia's task is to make clothes for all the creatures, she can't control anything. She's overwhelmed; even the scissors try to bite her hand. In desperation, she pours the sorcerer's potion on the sewing machine--and creates the wildest nightmare. The machine reveals its monstrous teeth: it bursts from the house and hems the trees; it stitches the mountains, snips the moon, bites the sun, until the sorcerer returns and order is restored. In a lovely last line, Willard gives the old cautionary tale a moral for today: Sylvia has learned to turn failures into fairy tales.' -- Hazel Rochman, Booklist.
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18.00 USD
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