The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairylan..., Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairylan..., Catherynne M. Valente
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Author: Catherynne M. Valente

Narrator: Catherynne M. Valente

Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/10/2011

Synopsis

"This is a kind of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by way of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—it's the sort of book one doesn't want to end." —Publisher's Weekly, starred reviewSeptember is a girl who longs for adventure. When she is invited to Fairyland by a Green Wind and a Leopard, well, of course she accepts. (Mightn’t you?) But Fairyland is in turmoil, and it will take one twelve-year-old girl, a book-loving dragon, and a strange and almost human boy named Saturday to vanquish an evil Marquess and restore order.

About Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente began September’s adventures in installments on the Web; the project won legions of fans and also the CultureGeek Best Web Fiction of the Decade award. She lives with her husband on an island off the coast of Maine. She has written many novels for adults, but this is her children’s book debut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on January 05, 2023

this was fun and nice and i wish i read it when i was a child. because then i would have felt the full whimsy of it in real time, and then also have access to a lifelong store of nostalgia every time i read it again forevermore. but instead, this is a children's book i read as an adult, so it feels......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on May 29, 2022

Re-Read 5/29/22: This time with my 9-year-old daughter. I thought it would be a perfect match, with gorgeous writing, fantastic ideas, and a sweet-and-bittersweet core. And of course, fairyland. In actual fact, she just thought it was okay. It had a few bright points. Sometimes it was kinda a chore fo......more

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