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Title	:	The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland #1)
Author	:	Catherynne M. Valente
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	May 10th 2011 by Feiwel & Friends
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fairy Tales. Adventure

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland #1) Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

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Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help is needed in Fairyland. The new Marquess is unpredictable and fickle, and also not much older than September. Only September can retrieve a talisman the Marquess wants from the enchanted woods, and if she doesn’t . . . then the Marquess will make life impossible for the inhabitants of Fairyland. September is already making new friends, including a book-loving Wyvern and a mysterious boy named Saturday.

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Original Title:	The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
ISBN:	0312649614 (ISBN13: 9780312649616)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Fairyland #1
Characters:	Iago, September, A-Through-L, Saturday (a Marid), The Green Wind, Leopard of Little Breezes, Queen Mallow, The Marquess
Literary Awards:	Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book (2012), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2012), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Roman jeunesse étranger (2016), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2014), Andre Norton Award (2009) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children's (2011), Hea Lasteraamat (2019)

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There is an audience for this sort of thing among the sort of fully grown women who grew up reading George MacDonald, Frank Baum, James Barrie and all the other sentimental, precious fiction of an earlier era. And perhaps some of today's 21st century girls will grow up to be part of that audience.Sorry fans, this is too derivative and too damn "twee" for me, and once more I am pissed off at librarians and other reviewers who review for the child in themselves rather than for the child actually

Rating: 3.5 starsThis was so imaginative and whimsical, it is certainly a fun read with wonderful characters. I found it to lag a little in the middle, so it a slower read despite the length of the book.

My favorite thing about this book is, of course, Wyverary A-Through-L. What's a wyverary, you ask? Well, when a wyvern and a library love each other very very much......blush... you know the spiel.--------------------------------------------------------------But do I sense some skepticism, my cynical friends? Do you maybe insist on thinking there is an infinitely more prosaic explanation for the existence of Wyverary, an alphabetizing-loving fire-breathing half-library? Let him rebuke your

To Embrace or Turn Away?It would have been so much easier to stay in that unhappiness. But like September, I had to say yes to a more extraordinary world, no matter how frightening it wasI wanted to create a book about saying yes to magic, about seeing a new way of living and embracing it instead of turning awayWhen I was quite little, maybe four or five, my mom woke me up in the middle of the night and told me to put my bathing suit on. We went outside, and laid in lawn chairs under the full

Consider this fair warning: I'm writing a squee review , as I think Catherynne Valente is the "bee's knees" when it comes to funny, modern, beautifully written fairytales that can appeal to children and adults in equal measure. Compared to The Orphan Tales , the adventures of the girl September in Fairyland are straightforward and easier to follow, without the frequent jumps from one storyteller to another, while maintaining the emotional intensity and the lyrical prose that first attracted

I walked into the bookstore in a bit of a mood. Wait, that's my Midwestern nature talking. We tend to understate. The truth is I walked into the bookstore furious at the world. I can't remember why. I am prone to dark moods, and when I'm in the middle of one, I tend to rumble through the world like an angry old-testament god. I went directly to the Sci-Fi Fantasy section. That's where I live for the most part. That's where I go when the world gets to be too much for me. I looked at the titles.

This book just wasn't for me. The writing style is so different, so whimsical, so fancy, that I can tell the author had a lot of fun stretching her vocabulary to the utmost and rolling around and playing in it till it came out in wonderfully wrapped paragraphs and pages. But I just didn't like it. There are so much things I had to remember, keep track of, and all that stuff that I just got so lost and became disinterested.Don't get me wrong, the world building is creative and all sorts of