The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs

by Nonny Hogrogian (Retold, Illustrator)

To keep a princess as his bride, a poor boy must bring the king three golden hairs from the head of the devil.

Genres: Picture Books, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Childrens

40 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Nonny Hogrogian is an Armenian-American writer and illustrator, known best for children's picture books. She has won two annual Caldecott Medals for U.S. children's book illustrations. Since childhood she prefers folk and fairy tales, poetry, fantasy and stories.

Reviews

[Michael Fitzgerald · Rating 4 out of 5]

Page one of a children's picture book published in America in 1983 contains the word "caul" - I found this extremely odd. It was also curious why not a single person in the editorial process for a major publishing house was able to have this changed to "birthmark" or something that would be readily understandable (it affects the story not at all).

[D · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gotta love those collected Grimm stories.

[Saffron Moon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This rating is for the edition adapted and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian.