Description
The Light Princess–the princess who lost her gravity–has been essential fiction for several generations of children. This new edition is a companion volume (same page size, similar design) to our edition of The Golden Key, of which Publishers’ Weekly said: Maurice Sendak lights the way through MacDonald’s Kingdom with the most mystical, the most poetic pictures of his distinguished career. Now Sendak has made the pictures The Light Princess always deserved to have.
This is the only separate edition available that preserves the authentic text; it is neither cut nor edited nor improved in any way.
“For [this] elegant edition of the Victorian story that combines seriousness with levity and farce with fantasy, the artist has created pictures that…present the ludicrous element of the story; then become poetic and romantic; and finally are climaxed by the last crowning revelation of the light princess humanized by sorrow and love.” — Starred, The Horn Book
George Macdonald(1824-1905) is the author best know for the classic fantasy booksThe Golden Key, The Light Princess,The Princess and the Goblin,andAt the Back of the North Wind.
Maurice Sendak(1928-2012) was the author and illustrator of such classic children’s books asWhere the Wild Things AreandIn the Night Kitchen. Widely considered one of the most innovative creators of children’s literature, he received honors including the Caldecott Medal, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the National Medal of Arts. Sendak was born in Brooklyn in 1928 and died in Connecticut in 2012.
Target Age: 8-12
Square Fish
Pub Date: August 01, 1984
0.3″ H x 7.2″ L x 4.8″ W
128 pages
paperback
