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**DILLON, Leo & Diane (illus.) Mem Fox (text) The Goblin and the Empty Chair Viking, 2009 unpaged $24.95 ISBN 9780670074211 SCIS 1430945
The cover of this book portrays an arresting figure, green of skin and with a mane of green hair, and with sharp fingernails and a lion-like tail. He is dressed in smart purple clothes of medieval design, and he looks at the viewer from above a veil that covers the lower half of his face. His hand rests on an empty chair of the plain wooden kind.
Such a cover and title promise a folk tale or something ofthat ilk; and the opening words 'In a time long past, in a land far away, there...