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Article: Sharon Creech: The Castle Corona.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Sharon Creech The Castle Corona; illus. by David Diaz 320 pp. Cotler/HarperCollins 10/07 ISBN 978-0-06-084621-3 $18.99 Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-084622-0 $19.89 (Intermediate)
A king and a queen, three royal children, two peasant children, and a hermit are the main characters in Creech's lush fairy tale. Pia and Enzio, the peasant children, long for the rich life the royal children lead, since their own consists of hard work and hunger under a cruel master who refers to them as "dirty beetles." None of the castle inhabitants, however, are much pleased with his or her own circumstances, either: King Guido hates his itchy gold robes and wishes he could take a ...