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Leopold the Liar of Leipzig
20052197086Joanna Cottler Books / Harper Collins 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Aviram Einar. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. "Everyone loves Leopold who holds court at the Leipzig zoo on Sunday afternoons and tells fantastic tales of faraway places. One day a learned professor comes to town and gives a lecture on the real places he has been. Everyone is bored and either leaves or falls asleep. The indignant Doctor Morgenfresser shouts Your Leopold is a liar! and has him hauled off to jail. On trial the man explains that he never claimed any of it actually happened the people declare him Leopold the Storyteller and he is released to tell his stories to the children of the village. While Leopold's alliterative tales are mildly entertaining the moral is heavy-handed. The thickly painted woodblock-style artwork which is reminiscent of Chagall's bright colors and angular slightly floating characters is interesting and fits the style and location of the story well. Aviram does a nice job of contrasting the scenes of Leopold's imprisonment and trial with his stories by using drab colors for the former and bright jewel tones for the latter." - School Library Journal Joanna Cottler Books / Harper Collins hardcover books
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