Maurice and the Grimm Boys

My heart skipped a beat when I came across a box set of Grimm's Fairy Tales in a second hand bookshop recently. The two volume set, The Juniper Tree (1974) has 26 stories selected by Lore Segal and is illustrated by none other than Maurice Sendak.  

Frederick and His Katelizabeth

Rapunzel

 The Three Feathers

 Hans My Hedgehog

The Poor Miller's Boy and the Little Cat

Maurice Sendak's skill at drawing compressed pictorial spaces filled with detail creates the most intense atmosphere in his illustrations. The Juniper Tree has been on my wish-list for years, so I'm very happy to finally have a copy of my own.