This tale from Grimm is far less familiar than many other; it has been given a brisk retelling by Natalie Babbitt and witty, spectacular, sumptuous pictures by Fred Marcellino. The story tells all about young Marco, who leads a charmed life if anyone ever did, starting off as nobody special and ending up king. Not that it's an easy path, the most dangerous part being an errand that takes him down into Hell. But thanks to the Devil's grandmother, as good an old girl as grandmothers everywhere, it all comes right in the end.
Ouch!
ISBN: 0062050672
ISBN 13: 9780062050670
Publication Date: September 01, 1998
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Authors: Natalie Babbitt, Fred Marcellino