![]() ![]() ![]() Marc Simont re-illustrated the story for reissue in 1990, putting the fantasy of the piece on a more magical plane and calling forth a greater awareness of the King’s love for his ill daughter. Slobodkin’s illustrations emphasize the theatrical, light-opera quality of the tale, depicting a tiny and seemingly frail Princess Lenore nearly overwhelmed by the soaring castle surrounding her, making the solution to her problem all the more satisfying. In its first incarnation, with illustrations by Louis Slobodkin, it won the Caldecott Medal for 1944. Many Moons is considered his best book for children, and it shows a tenderness and charm that his writing for adults does not. ![]() ![]() The books, starting with Many Moons (1943) and ending with The Wonderful O (1957), are filled with wordplay, allusions, rhymes, alliteration, snatches of song and poetry, wild flights of fancy that veer into the absurd, and - in the greatest departure from his work for adults -happy endings. James Grover Thurber, celebrated for his mordant sketches of contemporary life in the 1940s and 1950s, James Thurber’s five works that have been classified as children’s books show a lover of words at play. ![]()
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