In Hans Christian Andersen’s 1861 tale “The Ice Virgin,” a young man is pulled from the brink of romantic joy and dragged down into the cold waters of a Swiss lake by a glacier queen with “long white-green hair [and] dead eyes like two gun-barrels.” Something of the same dark dynamic plays out in P.J. Lynch’s illustrated fantasy “The Haunted Lake” (Candlewick, 48 pages, $17.99), though by the end of this original fairy tale readers will be left considerably less chilled and uneasy than after Andersen’s story. Mr. Lynch’s...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 04, 2020 14:36 UTC