Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast
10 best books like Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast (Jane Yolen): Namesake, Volume 1, Kindred Rites, Guys Write for Guys Read, In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: The Myth and Reality of Lewis Carroll, The Other Alice: The Story of Alice Liddell and Alice in Wonderland, Gears of Wonderland, Grimm Fairy Tales: Tales from Wonderland vol 1, Fantastic Alice, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Curses, Inc. and Other Stories
Namesake is the story of Emma Crewe, a woman who discovers she can visit other worlds. She finds out that these are places she already knows – fantasy and fairy lands made famous through the spoken word, literature and cinema. Her power as a Namesake forces her to act as a protagonist in these familiar...
| Author | Katharine Eliska Kimbriel |
| ISBN | 0061057967 |
Now that Alfreda has begun to learn the Wise Arts, she is needed at home in the village of Sun Return. The woods around the cabin are alive with poltergeists. Candles light by themselves, and even the rocks dance. There is much work for an apprentice practitioner.But a more dangerous task calls. For a new...
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 0670060275 |
What is a typical guy moment, anyhow? Daniel Pinkwater remembers the disappointment of meeting his Lone Star Ranger hero up close and personal. Gordon Korman relishes the goofy ultra violence of the old Looney Tunes cartoons. Stephen King realizes that having your two hundred-pound babysitter fart...
In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: The Myth and Reality of Lewis Carroll
| Author | Karoline Leach |
| ISBN | 0720613183 |
In the Shadow of the Dreamchild uses new research to show that the long-standing image of the life of Charles Dodgson, better known to millions of fans around the world as Lewis Carroll, as exclusively child-centred and unworldly, his preoccupation with Alice Liddell, and his supposedly unnatural...
The Other Alice: The Story of Alice Liddell and Alice in Wonderland
| Author | Christina Björk |
| ISBN | 9129622425 |
So here's the deal: it took me 2 days to get through a 93-page, what I think is meant to be, children's book. I presume the author's intention was to create a book with fact and fiction blended together. Written primarily for children. Part story about the relationship between Alice and "Mr. Dodgson" (what...
| Author | Jason G. Anderson |
| ISBN | 1466420251 |
James Riggs lives a normal life with a mind-numbing job, an overbearing boss, and a demanding fiancee. Then he witnesses the murder of his best friend. Saved from the murderer by a strange man in a white suit, James is cast down a hole and into a world he always believed was a kid's story. Wonderland. But...
Grimm Fairy Tales: Tales from Wonderland vol 1
| Author | Raven Gregory |
| ISBN | 0981755038 |
Queen of Hearts, Mad Hatter (I) and Alice + "The Experiment & Beyond Wonderland bonus
Collecting the first 3 1-shot issues that comprise Tales From Wonderland
First in Queen of Hearts (written by Joe Brusha with art by Daniel Liester, colored by Nei Ruffino, lettered by Alphabet...
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0441002536 |
The bestselling coauthor of Fire Sea and The Hand of Chaos has compiled a collection of all-new, first-time-in-print adventures featuring Lewis Carroll's Alice. Now out of Wonderland, Alice is taken on journeys beyond imagination to different eras and different worlds, by a talented group of fantasy's...
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0440227674 |
Vande Velde expertly mixes horror and humor as well as the best and worst that human nature has to offer in this collection of short fiction, and she does it without relying on blood and guts.The best of these stories is the title piece. Bill has invited Denise to the school's end of the year dance, but decides...
| Author | Pamela F. Service |
| ISBN | 0449703398 |
Lorna Padgett, an archeologist's daughter, has inherited her father's love for ancient Egypt. Ameni lived over four thousand years ago. The son of a Pharoah, he loved adventure but had no idea what destiny the gods were holding for him. These two should never have met. But a walk in the hills near her father's...
| Author | Jimmy Santiago Baca |
| ISBN | 0811211029 |
Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1987). "Baca's evocation of this landscape," as City Paper noted, "its aridity and fertility, is nothing...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0689841809 |
Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen has long been an ardent supporter of books, reading, and literacy programs. To further the cause of ProLiteracy Worldwide, he asked prominent authors to write an original story; the only restriction was that each story was to include mention of a book. The result is...
| Author | Sharyn November |
| ISBN | 0142405523 |
First Firebirds. Then Firebirds Rising. Now there is Firebirds Soaring, the third anthology of original stories by some of today?s finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. These authors, including Nancy Farmer (The Sea of Trolls), Ellen Klages (The Green Glass Sea), Margo Lanagan (Black Juice),...
1 Lily. She has the power to heal, but no speech - until a mage hears words from her mind.
2 Ruen. The princess was abandoned by her uncle deep in a cave to die at the hands of a stagman - who will surprise fate.
3 Erana. Given as a babe to a witch, raised beside the witch's troll son, she learns...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0756401828 |
I needed a non-fiction book from each of the major Dewey Decimal classifications and this is the only one I could stomach from the 800-899 - LITERATURE classification. Unfortunately there wasn't anything special about it. All the stories have been told hundreds of times and nothing in this anthology...
| Author | James Lowder |
| ISBN | 1569757887 |
THE BEAST STALKS THE NIGHT!
The change comes on with startling speed. Moonlight transforms the kindly stranger into something else--something wild, vicious and beyond the reach of reason. The curse has taken hold. From dark urban alleys and fog-shrouded heaths to unsettling futurescapes...
| Author | Dagoberto Gilb |
| ISBN | 0802133991 |
If Raymond Carver got stoned and had a love child with a plate of fajitas and a twelve back of Budweiser, that love child would call itself Dagoberto Gilb and then punch you in the face for making such a stupid analogy.
Dagoberto Gilb is a tough dude. He writes about tough dudes. And he writes about...
The Beasts of Upton Puddle
| Author | Simon West-Bulford |
| ISBN | 1605425206 |
Bringing the mythological world into a modern setting and introducing young adult readers to a variety of strange monsters, this fantasy novel follows 12-year-old Joe Copper, as he travels along in his quest to save humankind. When Joe is hired by the eccentric Mrs. Merrynether as an errand boy at her...
Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life
| Author | Robin J. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0393060276 |
Just when we thought we knew everything about Lewis Carroll, here comes a highly original biography that will appeal to Alice fans everywhere. Fascinated by the inner life of Charles Lutwidge Dodson, Robin Wilson, a Carroll scholar and a noted mathematics professor, has produced this revelatory...
Inventing Wonderland: the Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne
| Author | Jackie Wullschlager |
| ISBN | 0684822865 |
I read this as research for my Master's Degree in English Literature and found it a great disappointment. The book is riddled with inaccurancies. E. Nesbit's name is consistently mispelled as E.E. Nesbit, Pan the Faun God of the Ancient Greeks, is called a 'Centaur' several times, the ending of the book...
