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Title: Swan Lake by Lisbeth Zwerger, Elizabeth Zwerger, Marianne Martens, Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich Lebedinoe Ozero Tchaikovsky ISBN: 0-7358-1702-2 Publisher: North South Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautifully illustrated
Comment: My husband and I tend to buy books that also show an artistic talent with an older story. This book definitely qualifies. It's beautifully illustrated and wonderfully-written. Swan Lake has always been my favorite story and the illustrations here are just artistic and beautifully-drawn. Our boys love the pictures.
Swan Lake is the classic tale about a prince who isn't responsible till his mother, the queen, decides it's time for him to get married. The prince falls in love with a beautiful woman in white and finds out that she's a princess under an enchanted spell. They fall in love and meet adveristy along the way. And ... ends well.
It's a wonderful story for both boys and girls ~~ especially if you like reading fairy-tales to them!
1-8-04
Rating: 4
Summary: Retelling the story of the Swan Queen with a happy ending
Comment: "The Nutcracker" might be the most popular ballet in the world, and certainly the ones that most people who have only seen one ballet have seen, but "Swan Lake" is the definitive ballet and when a young dancer dreams of being a prima ballerina this is the one she sees herself dancing. However, as Lisbeth Zwerger explains in her author's note in the back of this book, when it was first premiered not only was Tchiakovsky's ballet not a success, it had a happy ending in which love conquers evil. Of course, now "Swam Lake" has a tragic ending full of pathos and Zwerger takes no small degree of pleasure in retelling the story with a happier ending.
The story is set in the fantasy world of once upon a time, when the right mix of enough evil and a good spell to transform a beautiful woman into a swan. The only way of breaking such a spell is the love of a man and when a young prince meets the Swan Queen, the woman who was the swan he almost killed while hunting, he professes to feel such a love. However, the evil sorcerer who cast the spell has more tricks up his sleeve. This telling of "Swam Lake" is simple and elegant, capturing the feel of an old world fairy tale with illustrations that suggest another time and place. For those who are musically inclined there are brief lines of music, which I assume are keyed to parallel passages in Tchiakovsky's ballet.
The chief attraction here will be for those familiar with the ballet, but even if you have only a passing interest in such things you will still find this a charming retelling of the tale. Besides, this is your only chance to read "Swan Lake" and have a happy ending.
Rating: 5
Summary: The natural appeal of this book is great
Comment: "With a flash, the lake was bathed in a shimmering light, and before him stood the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. 'I am the Swan Queen,' she said. `I am the swan that you tried to kill.'" The somber but beautiful drama of Tchaikovsky's brilliant ballet. "Swan Lake," has been transformed into an elegant picture book for children retold and illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger, and translated by Marianne Martens. Zwerger - a Hans Chrisitan Andersen Medal-winner for lifetime achievement - is in glorious form here. Her mysterious paintings are filled with emotion, urgency, light and shadow, while her formal, dramatic text is as radiantly ethereal as the Swan Queen herself. Few contemporary princess tales can come close to providing the grace and majesty contained in the breathless passages here. It's a thing of beauty to be cherished. Next to "The Nutcracker," "Swan Lake" is the most popular ballet for young children, so the natural appeal of this book is great, particularly for budding ballerina's in training prone to their own flights of fancy.
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Title: Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Lisbeth Zwerger, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0735813949 Publisher: North South Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Noah's Ark by Heinz Janisch, Lisbeth Zwerger, Rosemary Lanning ISBN: 1558587845 Publisher: North South Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Stories from the Bible by Lisbeth Zwerger ISBN: 0735814139 Publisher: North South Books Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Merry Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel by Heinz Janisch, Lisbeth Zwerger, Anthea Bell ISBN: 155858806X Publisher: North South Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: How the Camel Got His Hump by Rudyard Kipling, Lisbeth Zwerger ISBN: 0735814821 Publisher: North South Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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