Title: The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom Author: Written by Christopher Healy, Illustrated by Tod Harris Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Middle Grade Publisher: Walden Pond Press Publication Date: May 2012 Hardcover: 293 Pages (US) nter a world…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that our guest authors are given free rein so they can go…
Title: Enchanted Author: Alethea Kontis Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retellings, Young Adult Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books Publication Date: May 2012 Hardcover: 305 Pages It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Title: Snow in Summer Author: Jane Yolen Genre: Historical, Fairytale, Young Adult Publisher: Philomel Publication date: November 10th 2011 Hardcover: 256 pages With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her father’s garden.…
Title: A Tale Dark and Grimm Author: Adam Gidwitz Genre: Horror, Fairy Tale Retellings, Middle Grade Publisher: Dutton Juvenile Publication Date: October 2010 Hardcover: 251 pages In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of…
Title: The Princess Curse Author: Merrie Haskell Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Young Adult Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: September 2011 Hardcover: 328 pages Twelve princesses suffer from a puzzling—and downright silly—curse. Ridiculous though the curse may be, whoever breaks…
Title: Breadcrumbs Written by Anne Ursu Illustrations by Erin McGuire Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Middle Grade Publisher: Walden Pond Press (HarperCollins) Publication Date: September 2011 Hardcover: 313 pages Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends.…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go wild…
Title: A Long Long Sleep Author: Anna Sheehan Genre: Speculative Fiction/Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fairy Tale Retelling, Young Adult Publisher: Candlewick (US)/Gollancz (UK) Publication date: August 2011 (US & UK) Hardcover: 352 pages Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two…
Title: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Author: Catherynne M Valente; Illustrations by Ana Juan Genre: Fantasy / YA Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Publication date: May 10th 2011 Hardcover: 256 pages Twelve-year-old September…
Title: Toads and Diamonds Author: Heather Tomlinson Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Retelling Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. Publication Date: March 2010 Hardcover: 288 Pages Diribani has come to the village well to get water for her family’s…
Title: By These Ten Bones Author: Clare B. Dunkle Genre: Fantasy YA Publisher: Square Fish Publication date: February 2011, reprint edition. Paperback: 256 pages A mysterious young man has come to a small Highland town. His talent for wood…
Title: Howl’s Moving Castle Author: Diana Wynne Jones Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Harper Collins Publication date: First edition: 1986 (This edition: 2009) Paperback: 304 pages In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go wild…
Title: Bound Author: Donna Jo Napoli Genre: Historical Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Atheneum Publication Date: November 2004 Hardcover: 192 pages YOUNG XING XING IS BOUND. Bound to her father’s second wife and daughter after Xing Xing’s father…
Title: Extraordinary Author: Nancy Werlin Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Urban/Contemporary Fantasy Publisher: Dial (Penguin) Publication Date: September 2010 Hardcover: 400 pages Phoebe finds herself drawn to Mallory, the strange and secretive new kid in school, and the two girls…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go wild…
Title: An Artificial Night Author: Seanan McGuire Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: DAW Publication date: September 7 2010 MMP 368 pages Stand alone or series: Book 3 in the October Daye series October “Toby” Daye is a changeling-half human and…
Title: Plain Kate Author: Erin Bow Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books Publication Date: September 2010 Hardcover: 336 pages Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can…
Welcome to our latest guest post in the YAAM – 2010 edition. As part of our celebration of all things YA, we invited authors from different genres to write about the books and the genres they write. Today’s guest…
Title: Sisters Red Author: Jackson Pearce Genre: YA/UF Publisher: Hodder Children’s Book/ Little, Brown Publication Date: June 2010 Hardcover: 352 pages The story of Scarlett and Rosie March, two highly-skilled sisters who have been hunting Fenris (werewolves) – who…
Title: East Author: Edith Pattou Genre: Fantasy, Retelling, Young Adult Publisher: Harcort Publication Date: September 2003 Paperback: 400 pages Rose has always felt out of place in her family, a wanderer in a bunch of homebodies. So when an…
Welcome to Day 1 of our Young Adult Appreciation Month ( July 18 to August 21). For the duration of the month we will be celebrating all things YA with loads of reviews, giveaways and guest posts by YA…
Title: Peter and Max – A Fables Novel Author: Bill Willingham (writer) / Steve Leialoha (illustrator) Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Vertigo Publication Date: October 2009 Hardcover: 400 pages This story stars Peter Piper and his incorrigible brother Max in a…