I’d never heard of this story before chaperoning my son’s trip to the theater where they were putting on a stage production of this story. It was fantastic and I decided I should read the source material.
I actually listened to this on audiobook, so I don’t know if the book has illustrations in it, but having seen it performed on stage I had no trouble visualizing everything that was going on. The voice actor did a wonderful job with several accents and injected a lot of emotion into her performance.
This is a lovely story and I wish it had been around when I was young.