Pretty Things
Peter Campbell, 21 February 1980
Beauty and the Beast
by Rosemary Harris and Errol Le Cain.
Faber, 32 pp., £3.50, October 1980,0 571 11374 5 Show More
by Rosemary Harris and Errol Le Cain.
Faber, 32 pp., £3.50, October 1980,
Mazel and Shlimazel
by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Margot Zemach.
Cape, 42 pp., £3.95, November 1980,0 224 01758 6 Show More
by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Margot Zemach.
Cape, 42 pp., £3.95, November 1980,
La Corona
by Russell Hoban and Nicola Bayley.
Cape, 32 pp., £3.50, September 1980,0 224 01397 1 Show More
by Russell Hoban and Nicola Bayley.
Cape, 32 pp., £3.50, September 1980,
Comic and Curious Cats
by Angela Carter and Martin Leman.
Gollancz, 32 pp., £3.50, April 1980,0 575 02592 1 Show More
by Angela Carter and Martin Leman.
Gollancz, 32 pp., £3.50, April 1980,
The Wild Washerwomen
by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake.
Hamish Hamilton, 32 pp., £3.75, October 1980,0 241 89928 1 Show More
by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake.
Hamish Hamilton, 32 pp., £3.75, October 1980,
“... fortunes are ruined, for a while, anyway. Again the drawings – in this case brush-drawings by Margot Zemach, rather in the manner of Ben Shahn – are not strictly necessary, but they are good on gestures and are an addition rather than a subtraction: it is a handsome book and lovely to read. On the face of it, La Corona has even more going for ... ”
