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#7 A fantastic foray into Norse Mythology for children

February 13, 2014 by Aquillia Leave a Comment

For Odd’s village, winter seems like it will never end – more so than usual, that is. It is especially tough on Odd, who doesn’t quite fit in with his village, and at last he resolves to set forth into the wintry forest to figure out why spring does not come. When he runs into a bear, an eagle, and a fox, he is swept into a mystery and another world – the world of Asgard, where the Norse gods are dealing with an angry […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #Gaiman, #MG, Children, mythology

Aquillia's CBR6 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #Gaiman, #MG, Children, mythology ·
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Once Upon a Time in Old New York

January 6, 2014 by narfna 5 Comments

1899. On a ship bound for New York in the middle of the Atlantic, a Golem comes to life. Soon after, her master and sole reason for living, dies. A little ways across the water, a Jinni turned human emerges from more than a thousand years of captivity in a flask in the shop of a tinsmith in lower Manhattan, thousands of miles away from his home in the Syrian desert. Both are out of time and out of place. Who are they in such […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, History Tagged With: fantasy, folklore, helene wecker, historical, mythology, narfna, the golem and the jinni

narfna's CBR6 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, History · Tags: fantasy, folklore, helene wecker, historical, mythology, narfna, the golem and the jinni ·
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