Editorial Reviews

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"His distinctive style evokes the fairy tales' mix of surrealism and exoticism; apparently, he played a tape recording of the fairy tales as he drew. ... This was the first cover to feature Pienkowski's enchanting silhouette style. The black title lettering picks up on the silhouette and stands out against the multicoloured backdrop that captures a sense of 1960s experimentalism." - Lydia Fulton, Financial Times

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"One of the best possible books to give to a child, made even more magical by the exquisite silhouette pictures of the Polish artist Jan Pienkowski." - Amanda Craig, Amazon.co.uk

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"Magic has never been more elegantly shaped than in these effervescent short stories ... The flight of imagination is delicately captured in Jan Pienkowski's accompanying silhouettes." - Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian

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"I loved these strange tales with their exquisitely vivid illustrations!...we read one a day (sometimes rather greedily more), and were in turns, charmed, amused and thrilled by the weird and wonderful characters and their enchanting, enchanted stories" - Okido blog

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"Jan Pienkowski, whose magical silhouttes were never so finely matched as with the wonderful Joan Aiken's fine short stories...A treat" - The Evening Standard

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"Filled with poetic repetitions, each story beautifully balances the prosaic with the wondrous" - Best Book Guide

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