Fairytale

Wind, Ellen Dee Davidson

Wind Book Review Reviewed by Mary Woodbury Book information Author: Ellen Dee Davidson Publication date: February 1, 2022 Wind, by Ellen Dee Davidson, is a wonderful novel for children and adults alike. Starting with an adventurous and colorful book cover and getting right into the main character Katie’s whimsical daydreaming […]

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Every Leaf a Hallelujah, Ben Okri

An environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times. -Booker Prize-winning author of The Famished Road Ben Okri’s Every Leaf a Hallelujah is beautiful and wise—a true fable for our time. And Diana Ejaita’s illustrations are spectacular. -Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth […]

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Milk Teeth, Helen Bukowski

Beautifully written in immersive, spare prose, Helene Bukowski’s debut novel is about what it means to be a mother at the end of the world, about living with the impacts of climate change, and the way we view “outsiders.” Jen Calleja’s translation from German is a lively rendition of this […]

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El Taller de las Mariposas, Giocanda Belli

For children and adults alike, Odair, one of the “Designers of All Things” and grandson of the esteemed inventor of the rainbow, has been banished to the insect laboratory as punishment for his overactive imagination. But he still dreams of one day creating a cross between a bird and a […]

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Awakening Worlds, J.C. Thomas

Awakening Worlds is a coming of age novel with contemporary Gothic themes and elements of magical realism, a must-read for anyone who loves otherworldly fantasy.  When Roselyn, daughter of the universe, learns humanity’s growing disregard for Earth’s health is putting her mother’s life in danger, she volunteers to nurture a […]

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Winternight Trilogy, Katherine Arden

This looks fantastic! A fairytale/fantasy where surrounding nature strongly intersects with the story. A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman’s myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular […]

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Forgotten Things, Stephen Mullaney-Westwood

The beauty of the Cornish countryside… The innocence of childhood in the 1980’s… An ancient mystery not quite forgotten. Mullaney-Westwood’s first novel is a spiritual coming of age tale mixing haunting faery lore and a deep love for the natural world. Fairy tales are one thing…faeries, are another. ‘A magical […]

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The Story Collector, Evie Gaughan

See our world eco-fiction spotlight on this title at Dragonfly. The Story Collector treads the intriguing line between the everyday and the otherworldly, the seen and the unseen. With a taste for the magical in everyday life, Evie Gaughan’s latest novel is full of ordinary characters with extraordinary tales to […]

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The Merry Spinster, Mallory Ortberg

Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves, and each other, as we tuck ourselves in for the night. Goodreads Review Back to GoodReads

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Leaf and the Sky of Fire (Twig Stories, Vol. 2), Jo Marshall

In a dying forest – infested with bark beetles – impish, stick creatures called Twigs are forced to hide in a cave, or be devoured by ravenous barkbiters! A young Twig named Leaf attempts a foolhardy rescue, but instead he leads them all into greater danger. Now they are pursued […]

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Leaf & the Rushing Waters (Twig Stories, Vol. 1), Jo Marshal

When a glacier melts, a dam of ice fractures, and a river called the Rushing Waters is set loose on an old growth forest. The flood surrounds an ancient tree, where impish, stick creatures, the Old Seeder Twigs, are stranded. Their fate is tied to an enormous and sinister beaver […]

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