Word: schart
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...FORTUNE-TELLERS by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Dutton; $15). In Cameroon a young carpenter consults the town fortune- teller. "You're going to pay me a nice fee," the seer predicts. What he doesn't foresee is that the laborer will end up as the town fortune-teller. This ingenious adventure suggests the magic of the Arabian Nights...
With a wolf that eats a grandmother and a little girl who gets into mortal trouble by talking with a stranger, the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood reeks of violence and veiled sexual terrors. But when a version of the story by Trina Schart Hyman reached Culver City, Calif., last fall, school officials thought they sniffed something really troubling: an implied endorsement of alcohol...
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