Singer
10 best books like Singer (Jean Thesman): Sign of the Qin, The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, Silver Woven In My Hair, Anahita's Woven Riddle, Northlander, The Tower Room, Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand, The Bonemender's Choice, Secret Sacrament, The Wicked Wood
| Author | L.G. Bass |
| ISBN | 0786855665 |
A volcanic eruption releases a vanguard of demons, sealed away for centuries beneath the earth. Soon after, the Emperor's first son is born, marked with the sign of the Qin-the brand of the outlaw! Could the child be the new Starlord, destined to restore justice to the land? The emperor plots to kill his...
The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen
| Author | Delia Sherman |
| ISBN | 0670010898 |
Neef, the official Changeling of Central Park, has survived a life-threatening quest, but that’s nothing compared to her first experiences at Changeling school. At Miss Van Loon’s, she meets her counterparts from all over Manhattan, learns the basics of diplomacy, and, of course, gets in trouble....
| Author | Shirley Rousseau Murphy |
| ISBN | 0689305583 |
Thursey is too strong-willed to be intimidated by her stepsisters with their cruel taunts claiming that her father died a coward in the recent wars. She defies them, hiding the little books she makes that preserve a variety of Cinderella stories from around the world--tales she hears from travelers...
| Author | Meghan Nuttall Sayres |
| ISBN | 0810954818 |
This book made me taste the flavors, see the colors, smell the spices, hear the sounds, and feel the fabrics. It employed each of my 5 senses. I felt like I was really in 19th century Iran, and it made me kind of want to be a Nomad. I was totally on Anahita's side when it came to absolutely NOT marrying the Khan,...
| Author | Meg Burden |
| ISBN | 0976812681 |
The debut novel of a young American writer creates a world of fantasy, where the land is divided into two-- the Northlands and the Southlands.
Ellin, a girl from the Southland, is forced to go with her physician father to heal the Northland king, even though Southlanders are despised and feared throughout...
| Author | Adèle Geras |
| ISBN | 0152055371 |
In a scene that echoes "Rapunzel," Megan looks down from her tower room at a cloistered all-girls boarding school in England and observes the arrival of the new laboratory assistant, Simon Findlay.
As soon as their eyes meet, their love blossoms--and Simon begins to scale the scaffolding...
| Author | Louise Hawes |
| ISBN | 0618747974 |
“ . . . and they lived happily ever after.” Remember the fairy tales you put away after you found that no princess is as beautiful as common sense and happy endings are just the beginning?
Well, the old tales are back, and they’ve grown up! Black Pearls brings you the stories of your childhood,...
When Dominic's children are kidnapped by raiding pirates, Gabrielle and Feolan find themselves drawn into their most frightening adventure yet, a sea journey into unknown lands. The adventure takes a deadly turn when the Gray Veil, a plague that slowly chokes its victims, strikes the harbor town...
| Author | Sherryl Jordan |
| ISBN | 0689860455 |
Terrified, a young Navaron child watches helplessly from his hiding place as a young Shinili woman is brutally beaten and abused by a group of drunken Navaron men. Too frightened to answer her pleas for help, the child runs away, taking with him the sacred bone carving of the Shinili people. In doing so,...
I didn't find this short story collection as engaging as the first one, The Wilful Eye. Both collections were mixed bags, as is to be expected with a collection of its ilk, but this one had more miss than hit stories for me.
I really loved Seventy Two Derwents by Cate Kennedy with its distinctly...
| Author | Saga Borg |
| ISBN | 8762300601 |
De fremmede krigere overfaldt dem om morgenen. De fór hærgende gennem byen og røvede, brændte og myrdede …
Den unge, smukke kvinde Siri ser sine frænder blive slået ihjel og sine veninder brutalt bortrøvet ligesom hun selv. De sejles til fjendens boplads, og Siri ved, hvad der venter...
| Author | Ed Gorman |
| ISBN | 0425171280 |
There are some pleasent surprises in this little collection. There are also some duds. Thankfully, however, the gems make up for the dudes. There does seem to be a preponderence of mob stories.
The stories range from funny to touching. Now of them all really sad. Standouts include-
"After...
From the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal comes a memorable new work, a novel of singular insight and imagination that transports readers to the Old Country, where "all the fairy tales come from, where there was magic -- and there was war." There, Gisella stares a moment too long into the eyes of a fox,...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0451455037 |
Oh dear. The first Sisters in Fantasy was a pretty solid collection. This is not: it has a few stand outs and a few truly awful stories, and then a load of completely forgettable tales. The truly weird thing about this collection is that there were a number with no fantastical elements: Nancy Springer's...
| Author | James M. Ward |
| ISBN | 0765351102 |
Halcyon Blithe, being a young man of good breeding and lineage as well as endowed with those qualities and abilities of a sorcerous nature and wishing to fulfill his full potential, is ready to assume his proper place in the world. He aims to seek his fortune among those who tend and sail the awesome nautical...
| Author | Paul Kearney |
| ISBN | 0553383639 |
He’s spoken of only in whispers. His origins are a mystery. Some say that he’s descended from the last of the angels. Others say much worse. By all appearances, Rol Cortishane is just another ruthless pirate roaming the lawless seas, raiding warships and slavers. But the truth is something far more...
| Author | William H. Hooks |
| ISBN | 0027443558 |
This simply wonderful Appalachian adaptation of the globally popular and celebrated Beauty and the Beast folktale type actually also contains many many elements of the Norwegian East of the Sun and West of the Moon, and it reminds me at least somewhat of the Russian folktale of Finist the Falcon Prince...
| Author | Nicholas Stuart Gray |
| ISBN | 0441759556 |
The background of this tale of adventure is 16th century Scotland, in the Highlands of the clan feuds and cattle-reiving days, and it has a sinister undertone of witchcraft and sorcery. Most of us are familiar with Hans Christian Anderson's great story, The Wild Swans, but how many have wondered what...
The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults
| Author | Stephen Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0609605453 |
The unique spin on this classic tale was clever and entertaining at first, but as the book progressed, the same charming writting style soon became a bit monotonous to read. Although the book does incorporate a lot of interesting historical facts, some chapters were just inconsequencial fluff that...
| Author | Michelle D. Argyle |
| ISBN | 1936850648 |
What happened after Cinderella married her prince? How did the evil sorceress in Sleeping Beauty turn evil in the first place? Discover these stories and a world filled with magic, forbidden love, elves, sprites, dragons, and the most powerful creatures of all— the fairies —in Bonded, a collection...
