Embracing the dreamlike logic of traditional nursery rhymes, Penney envisions their subjects almost as figures in a jazzy antique toy store, eerie and stately all at once. His perspectives are wonderfully skewed, almost surreal, while his composition...
Complemented by ornate, full-color illustrations, each concealing an acorn, easy-to-read retellings of classic fairy tales include two lesser-known stories, one set in ancient China and the other in Scotland and Ireland....