Description
Very Good- dust jacket, dust jacket protector has been added, illustrations on the front cover of a witch and apprentice, black and brown lettering, an illustration on the rear panel, minor edge-wear, minor soil. The Very Good binding is tan cloth over boards, black lettering on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The color and black-and-white illustrations by Margot Tomes are great and can be found at the turn of every page.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
Wanda Gag’s THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE illustrated by Margot ‘Tomes: “Sorcery-that is a trade I would dearly love to master!” said the boy to himself after he had become the sorcerer’s apprentice.
The lad was clever enough to learn many chants and charms from the sorcerer’s conjuring books. But not clever enough to fool his evil master.
Wanda Gág’s translation of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice has been newly illustrated with full color by Margot Tomes, who has infused the magic workshop with bubbling bottles of powerful potions. Ms. Tomes has also invested the quick-changing forms of the sorcerer and his apprentice (as they try to outwit one another) with her own special charms.
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
WANDA GÁG translated 52 of Grimm’s fairy tales, although she had not completely illustrated More Tales from Grimm at the time of her death in 1946. Ms. Gag was posthumously honored with the 1958 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and the 1977 Kerlan Award.
About the illustrator: (from the dust jacket)
MARGOT TOMES has illustrated more than 30 books for young readers, many of them for Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Ms. Tomes chose The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Wanda Gag’s collection as a companion volume to Jorinda and Joringel, which was published in 1978 to starred reviews in School Library Journal (“the witch is wonderfully witchy”) and ALA Booklist (“an elegant translation of the Grimm tale..,in the company of cozy drawings…featuring a properly ugly old sorceress”)
