A Tale for Easter

by Tasha Tudor, Tasha Tudor (Illustrator)

Overview

Springtime is special, and Easter is the most magical day of all!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780689866944
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	02/01/2004
Series:	Tasha Tudor Collection
Edition description:	Repackage
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	631,206
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Tasha Tudor (1915–2008) was a Caldecott artist with more than ninety books to her credit. She was known across the world for her glowing watercolor depictions of the American rural scene of a century ago and for her exquisite paintings of children, flowers, and animals. Tasha Tudor was also the illustrator of A Child’s Garden of Verses, The Night Before Christmas, The Springs of Joy, A Tale for Easter, A Time to Keep, The Dolls’ Christmas, All for Love, Pumpkin Moonshine, A is for Annabelle, and 1 is One, a Caldecott Honor Book.

Tasha Tudor (1915–2008) was a Caldecott artist with more than ninety books to her credit. She was known across the world for her glowing watercolor depictions of the American rural scene of a century ago and for her exquisite paintings of children, flowers, and animals. Tasha Tudor was also the illustrator of A Child’s Garden of Verses, The Night Before Christmas, The Springs of Joy, A Tale for Easter, A Time to Keep, The Dolls’ Christmas, All for Love, Pumpkin Moonshine, A is for Annabelle, and 1 is One, a Caldecott Honor Book.

Editorial Reviews

"Sentimental yet child-friendly, this book uses a second-person narration to evoke the pleasures of Easter as experienced in a long-ago rural idyll," wrote PW; this title was first published in 1941 and reissued in 2001. All ages. (Feb.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Tasha Tudor's 1941 A Tale for Easter is handsomely reissued in a seven-inch-square format. Sentimental yet child-friendly, the book uses a second-person narration to evoke the pleasures of Easter as experienced in a long-ago rural idyll. "On Saturday you go and ask the chickens to lay you plenty of Easter eggs," writes Tudor; a watercolor decoration of a plump hen on its nest faces a page showing an angelic girl in bonnet, frock, apron and pantaloons slightly bent over in conversation with three chickens. The girl dreams of a "wee fawn," "rabbits smoothing their sleek coats" and lambs cavorting among buttercups. ( Feb.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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