Volume 35, Number 18 · November 24, 1988
Not So Grimm
By Janet Adam Smith
Dear Mili: An Old Tale
by Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim, pictures by Maurice Sendak
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Michael di Capua Books, 34 pp., $16.95
Maurice Sendak is a great illustrator, rightly honored by the current exhibition at the Pierpont Morgan Library. It is showing the watercolors and preliminary drawings for his latest book, the recently discovered tale by Wilhelm Grimm now published as Dear Mili. But there may be some mixed feelings even among his staunchest admirers about this latest meeting of Sendak and Grimm.
Review, 1653 words
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