After reading the first of Catherynne Valente’s Fairyland series on sort of a whim, I immediately bought the rest of the series, hoping that the sequels would live up to the first. And book #2 did not disappoint! In fact, I think I enjoyed it even more than the first. It’s a bit darker, and a bit richer, and a bit more profound. Our protagonist, September, has been out of Fairyland for a year, living in Nebraska with her mother while her father is off at […]
A Remarkable Journey through Fairyland
This book made me wish I had children to read it aloud to. I made up for it by reading particularly wonderful passages aloud to my husband. September, a normal 12-year-old girl from Omaha, is visited one blustery day by the Green Wind. Being a clever, if somewhat heartless, girl, she of course says yes when the Green Wind asks her if she’d like to come to Fairyland. She’s not entirely sure why she’s in Fairyland, or what her quest might be, or how Fairyland even works, so she […]
The Reader Who Fell In Love With Fairyland and Refused to Stop Writing Reviews About It
Target: Catherynne M. Valente’s The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There Profile: Children’s Literature, Fantasy, Fairyland Catherynne M. Valente is a sleeper nod for the title of my favorite author. She combines the vocabulary of China Meiville with the storytelling sensibilities of Neil Gaiman and Philip Pulman’s eye for children’s adventure. And in my previous review of her Fairyland series, I compared her favorably to L. Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis and Lewis Carol. But what I think most impresses me about […]
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