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 […]