Aladdin
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The illustration on our cover this issue is by Michael Foreman and is taken from the endpapers of Dickens' . A Christmas Carol, (Gollancz, 0 575 033118, £5.95). We are grateful to Gollancz for help in using this illustration.
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Aladdin
Retold by Andrew Lang
Purists will always dispute the relative merits of different ways of telling the traditional tales. For me, Lang has all the intricate curves of the plot, the power, fear, surprise. Le Cain's pictures show the East the young have in their heads extended into intensely beautiful mosaics: sometimes shadowy, demonic and often, literally, spellbinding. For all ages.
Look at the arrival of the eighty slaves on page 16 and see how an artist's version (and our picture book technology) can show the young the patterns and complexity of a tale in a simple, stunning image.
