Climo, Shirley creator New York 1st. ed. 48 p. 3 x 1.12 x 26.24 cm This is an enchanting and magical variant of the favorite fairy tale. Like the tree planted to honor her birth, Pear Blossom is beautiful, and the pride of her elderly mother and father. But then her mother dies, and her father remarries. Pear Blossom’s stepmother resents her new daughter’s beauty. Children's Literature Myths, Fables or Tales Princesses and Princes Fairy Tale Retellings Loss 9780064433976 127596