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Nancy Willard: the Tale of Paradise Lost: Based on the Poem by John Milton.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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From: The Horn Book Magazine
Date: 20041101
Author:Baker, Deirdre F.

Nancy Willard The Tale of Paradise Lost: Based on the Poem by John Milton; illus. by Jude Daly 150 pp. Atheneum 10/04 ISBN 0-689-85097-2 $17.95 (Intermediate)

Willard's retelling of Milton's poem is an effort to bring the biblical story of Adam, Eve, and the serpent, ubiquitous in our culture, to children. At the same time, Willard says, she wants to give young readers a taste of Milton's imagery, thus leading them toward reading Paradise Lost itself. She abridges and retells his epic in seventeen chapters (an odd choice for a work whose meaning is embedded in its literary ...

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