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,
“... awfulness, comics their humour, long after princesses have started to look like fashion plates. Errol Le Cain makes a pantomime of it, goes for the look of stage scenery. His roses are paper roses, his sunsets like back projections. His Beauty is to my eye not beautiful, his Beast terrible, or his palace enchanted. Yet it ... ”
