The Fisherman and His Wife
by Rachel Isadora (Author) Rachel Isadora (Illustrator)
Caldecott Honor winning artist Rachel Isadora brings another fabulous fairy tale to brilliant life with her stunning collages. The fisherman's greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted her by an enchanted fish. The Brothers Grimm story of the kind fisherman who catches an enchanted fish, and his greedy wife who always wants more.
Rachel Isadora's captivating collage-style artwork, featuring the African landscape and the increasingly turbulent ocean, provides a wonderful new backdrop for this classic story.
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Kirkus Review - Children
A nicely ironic image beautifully executed, making this offering fresh and welcome.
Horn Book Magazine
It's a handsome book, and the tale sits comfortably in its new setting.
Booklist
The highly patterned collage pictures don’t really capture the scope of her ambitions, which seem more European than African, but their shaped and sculptured beauty is arresting.
School Library Journal
K-Gr 4 - As she did with "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" and "The Princess and the Pea" (both Putnam, 2007), Isadora has taken a tale of European origin and set it against a generic African backdrop, with no country, tribe, or culture specified. This is problematic as such treatment does nothing to enlighten children about the rich diversity that exists on this vast continent. This is a separate issue from the quality of Isadora's illustrations, which meet her usual standards. Using oil paints, printed paper, and palette paper, she has created dramatic, textured collages, intense in color and rich in detail. The spreads reflect an increasingly dark and angry sea as the wife's demands become more and more outrageous. The text is spare and minimal, with none of the lyrical language found in other retellings, such as Randall Jarrell's classic (Farrar, 1980; o.p.) with breathtaking illustrations by Margot Zemach. Younger readers may find this version more accessible, but all of the drama is in the art."Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ"
Copyright 2008 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Rachel Isadora has illustrated many books set in the world of dance and theater, including Opening Night, My Ballet Class, Swan Lake, The Little Match Girl, and Ben's Trumpet, which received the Caldecott Honor Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award.
copyright (c) 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.Rachel Isadora began dancing at the age of eight. She trained at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet and has danced professionally. Rachel lives in New York City with her family.
Rachel Isadora has illustrated many books set in the world of dance and theater, including Opening Night, My Ballet Class, Swan Lake, The Little Match Girl, and Ben's Trumpet, which received the Caldecott Honor Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award.
copyright (c) 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.Fairy tales
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