The Washington Post, November 6th, 1988
DEAR MILI An old tale by Wilhelm Grimm Translated by Ralph Manheim With pictures by Maurice Sendak Michael di Capua Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux Unpaginated. $16.95 CALDECOTT & CO. Notes on Books and Pictures By Maurice Sendak Michael di Capua Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux 224 pp. $18.95 DEAR MILI, widely heralded in 1983 as an unknown tale by Wilhelm Grimm, is a dreary story, somnambulist and sentimental, which bears little resemblance to the remarkable tales Wilhelm and his brother Jacob collected and published in 1812 as Kinder-und Hausmarchen-"Childrens' and Household Tales." The Grim...
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