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Book, 1993
Current format, Book, 1993, , All copies in use.
Book, 1993
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In a Korean version of the familiar fairy tale, her evil stepmother gives Pear Blossom three impossible tasks, and she completes them with the help of magic and becomes a nobleman's wife. By the author of The Egyptian Cinderella. In this version of Cinderella set in ancient Korea, Pear Blossom, a stepchild, eventually comes to be chosen by the magistrate to be his wife ‘Climo and Heller conflate several Korean variants of Cinderella to offer up the story of Pear Blossom, a lovely girl who is sorely mistreated by her nasty stepmother and stepsister.… At once comfortingly familiar and intriguingly exotic, the text is especially noteworthy for its instructive but unobtrusive incorporation of Korean words.’—Publishers Weekly. ‘Heller’s paintings are exotically lush and colorful as well as engaging.… An agreeable retelling of the Cinderella story.’ —BL.
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