Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 4:09:29 GMT
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own MakingI'm always looking for interesting books from the Anglo-Saxon world, books that I read in the original, both because they will most likely never arrive translated, and because it's a good reading exercise. In the world of fantasy, a novel for children has been released, with a long but curious title: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Manufacture . The author has written dozens of books of fiction and poetry and is best known for her urban fantasy stories, such as Palimpsest and The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden .
Even though this is a book for readers aged 10 to 14, it is already on my Amazon shopping list. Extract from the book CHAPTER I EXEUNT ON A LEOPARD In Which a Girl Named September Is Spirited Off by Means of a Leopard, Learns the Rules of Fairyland, and Solves a Puzzle Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents' house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every day, slept on the same embroidered pillow, and played with the same small and Special Data amiable dog. Because she had been born in May, and because she had a mole on her left cheek, and because her feet were very large and ungainly, the Green Wind took pity on her and flew to her window one evening just after her twelfth birthday .
He was dressed in a green smoking jacket, and a green carriage-driver's cloak, and green jodhpurs, and green snowshoes. It is very cold above the clouds in the shantytowns where the Six Winds live.Calbhach Murray, a determined and reliable Irishman. No one answered, but I heard voices shouting and a great commotion coming from the bridge. I staggered out of my cabin – the sea must have risen quite a bit – and went up on deck. I will never forget what I saw. We were in the Indian Ocean, within sight of Rakata Island and the Krakatau volcano, when I went down to the cabin to start writing. Now I could see clearly what had caused the explosion. An eruption never seen before. Krakatau seemed to have become the mouth of hell.
Even though this is a book for readers aged 10 to 14, it is already on my Amazon shopping list. Extract from the book CHAPTER I EXEUNT ON A LEOPARD In Which a Girl Named September Is Spirited Off by Means of a Leopard, Learns the Rules of Fairyland, and Solves a Puzzle Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents' house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every day, slept on the same embroidered pillow, and played with the same small and Special Data amiable dog. Because she had been born in May, and because she had a mole on her left cheek, and because her feet were very large and ungainly, the Green Wind took pity on her and flew to her window one evening just after her twelfth birthday .
He was dressed in a green smoking jacket, and a green carriage-driver's cloak, and green jodhpurs, and green snowshoes. It is very cold above the clouds in the shantytowns where the Six Winds live.Calbhach Murray, a determined and reliable Irishman. No one answered, but I heard voices shouting and a great commotion coming from the bridge. I staggered out of my cabin – the sea must have risen quite a bit – and went up on deck. I will never forget what I saw. We were in the Indian Ocean, within sight of Rakata Island and the Krakatau volcano, when I went down to the cabin to start writing. Now I could see clearly what had caused the explosion. An eruption never seen before. Krakatau seemed to have become the mouth of hell.