![]() ![]() Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in childrens classics and fairy tales - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. ![]() These include Old French Fairy Tales (1920), Tanglewood Tales (1921) and Arabian Nights (1928). She only completed three works in her lifetime, due to her early death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one. Sterretts illustrations are delicate yet powerful, inspired by the tradition of Art Nouveaux with its light washes of colour and sinuous black lines. Sterrett was an American artist and illustrator - one of the most talented, though also most tragic, of the Golden Age illustrators. Presented alongside the text, her illustrations further refine and elucidate Hawthornes masterful storytelling. These classic stories in Tanglewood Tales are accompanied by the truly beautiful illustrations of Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900 - 1931). It contains the myths of The Minotaur, The Pygmies, The Dragons Teeth Circes Palace, The Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece. Hawthorne originally penned the work, after a visit from his young friend Eustace Bright, who requested a sequel to the Wonder Book. It is a masterful re-writing of well-known Greek myths, all presented in one volume, for a younger audience. Book Synopsis Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls is a book written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864), and forms the sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. ![]()
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