The Devil's Storybooks Twenty Delightfully Wicked Stories [Paperback]

Every now and then, the Devil likes to pop up into the world for an adventure. He's a trickster and a mischief-maker, and just as full of vanity and other human failings. But he's also a gifted storyteller. The Devil's antics are presented in these two collections of stories,The Devil's StorybookandThe Devil's Other Storybook, together in one volume. They make for delightfully wicked reading and are accompanied by charming illustrations by Natalie Babbitt.

Artist and writerNatalie Babbitt (19322016)is the award-winning author of the modern classicTuck Everlastingand many other brilliantly original books for young people. As the mother of three small children, she began her career in 1966 by illustratingThe Forty-Ninth Magician, written by her husband, Samuel Babbitt. She soon tried her own hand at writing, publishing two picture books in verse. Her first novel,The Search for Delicious, was published in 1969 and established her reputation for creating magical tales with profound meaning.Kneeknock Riseearned Babbitt a Newbery Honor in 1971, and she went on to writeand often illustratemany more picture books, story collections,and novels. She also illustrated the five volumes in the Small Poems series by Valerie Worth. In 2002,Tuck Everlastingwas adapted into a major motion picture, and in 2016 a musical version premiered on Broadway. Born and raised in Ohio, Natalie Babbitt lived her adult life in the Northeast.

Ten comic stories about the machinations of the Devil to increase the population of his realm . . . The stories are delightful in their narrative fluency, full of surprises, and frequently spiced with dashes of Saki-like mischief. A suitably wicked but hilarious drawing accompanies each tale. The Horn Book, Starred Review

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