The Horn Book Magazine, March 1st, 1999
Lloyd Alexander Gypsy Rizka 144 pp. Dutton 4/99 ISBN 0-525-46121-3 16.99 (Intermediate)
A comic opera of a tale, set in a traditional storybook village where most folks are well meaning, where the one real villain is the overweening Chief Councilor Sharpnack, and where the local outcast--the girl Rizka--is a trickster hero, whose mischief benefits the meek and needy even more than herself. It's Rizka who makes the feuding parents of a Romeo-and-Juliet couple believe the lovers are in terrible danger, so that the parents vow mutual forgiveness if only their children turn up safe; Rizka who l...
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