- Donkeys, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Magic
In a moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again.
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Classical in form, earnest, effortless and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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- Author
- William Steig
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- William Collins, Prentice-Hall Books for Young Readers, Marcel Dekker
- Editions
- 64
- Language
- und, cat, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780525623007
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“Sylvester Duncan lived with his mother and father at Acorn Road in Oatsdale.”
William Steig /ˈstaɪɡ/ (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books, best known for the picture book Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name, as well as others that included Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
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