Three children go for a walk in the woods near the castle where they live. As night falls, it becomes an enchanted forest, home of Comus, the evil magician. He captures Alice and takes her to his hidden kingdom, and it falls to her younger brothers, John and Thomas, to rescue her from his terrible spell.
Margaret Hodges' retelling of Alice's bewitchment by the wicked sorcerer, and her rescue by her brothers and the good spirits of the forest, is based on John Milton's masque of the old English fairy tale, Childe Roland.
Trina Schart Hyman's vivid, startling oil paintings capture the beauty, terror, and theatrical splendor of this memorable story, one children will want to hear and see again and again.
—from the dust jacket
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