Slog's Dad

Author	Jessica Love
ISBN	0763690457

In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and ready to dazzle the world.

While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their...

Author	Alain-Fournier
ISBN	0140182829

Dear Henri Alain-Fournier,

Some people claim you had great talent as a novelist. Many more would claim I don't. Is it fair that you died in World War I while I live, free to write this review and feeling like I'm having a bad morning because I didn't have all the usual ingredients for my breakfast...

Author	Richard Laymon
ISBN	0747235503

This is the first book I've read by the author, and it was pretty good, if a little insane. Okay, more than a little insane.

There are so many crazy people in this book - it was difficult to determine who was the craziest, though I think it was Lander Dills.

A pair of back-packers; Neala and...

Author	Clive Barker
ISBN	0064407330

Candy lives in Chickentown USA: the most boring place in the world, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future may hold. She is soon to find out: swept out of our world by a giant wave, she finds herself in another place entirely...

The Abarat: a vast archipelago where every island is...

Author	Clive Barker
ISBN	0060596384

All things in their time . . .

Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?

Candy and her companions must solve the mystery...

Author	Jeannie Baker
ISBN	0744592275

What a lovely idea for a book. We see a windowsill and the view of a city street. On the windowsill stands a congratulation card for the birth of a baby girl. From that small viewpoint of this families house we see the changing view outside and the odd addition to the wall or windowsill that gives us clues what's...

Author	Marion Poschmann
ISBN	3518427601

Gilbert Silvester, Privatdozent und Bartforscher im Rahmen eines universitären Drittmittelprojekts, steht unter Schock. Letzte Nacht hat er geträumt, dass seine Frau ihn betrügt. In einer absurden Kurzschlusshandlung verlässt er sie, steigt ins erstbeste Flugzeug und reist nach Japan,...

Author	Amanda Mason
ISBN	1785767135

The Girls meets The Little Stranger in this dark and captivating debut about sisterhood, family secrets, and a dangerous game that becomes all too real.

THEN
1976. Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in the middle of nowhere, with their artistic parents and wild siblings....

Author	Anthony Browne
ISBN	0763631248

A funny, sympathetic antidote to worry from a Hans Christian Andersen Medalist

Billy worries about everything, from shoes that might march out the window to giant birds that might carry him away. One night on a visit to Grandma's, Billy is so anxious that he can't sleep. But Grandma has just...

Author	Richard Littler
ISBN	0091958482

"Scarfolk is a town in north-west England that did not progress beyond 1979. The entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. In Scarfolk children must not be seen OR heard, and everyone has to be in bed by 8 p.m. because they are perpetually running a slight fever..."

Part-comedy, part-horror,...