Jack Zipes is the editor and translator of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Princeton) and the editor of The Great Fairy Tale Tradition (Norton). Natalie Frank is an American artist whose work is in multiple museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
“A comprehensive anthology. . . . Also of note are artist Frank’s
gorgeous illustrations.”—Library Journal
“It is not often that a new book comes along that is both a
breakthrough in scholarly terms and also a magnificent work of art.
Jack Zipes’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, illustrated by Natalie
Frank, is both.”—Maria Tatar, Breezes from Wonderland
“Jack Zipes has always been a kind of sorcerer himself, skilled in
discovering, transforming, translating, and understanding the old
tales of magic that appear in different but similar forms all over
the world. This is a wonderful collection.”—Alison Lurie, author of
Don’t Tell the Grown-Ups
“An eclectic collection . . . spanning millennia and
continents.”—Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald
“A selection of high-quality tales. . . . This book offers a
convincing explanation for the immortality of tales featuring the
sorcerer’s apprentice.”—Yelena Francis, Journal of Folklore
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