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I, Coriander

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With atmospheric writing, Gardner creates a new exhilarating fairy tale of a young girl who in the 17th century discovers she has inherited mysterious abilities from her mother.

Hardcover, 280 pages

Published August 15th 2005 by Dial

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Oct 21, 2011 Minli rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mythic, young-adult, historical

I, Coriander is a fairy story set in Puritan England. Coriander is a young girl befallen on hard times--her mother passes away, her father is driven out by her evil stepmother and the rise of Oliver Cromwell ('cause he's a Royalist), and her stepmother's crazy Puritan zealot friend is out to get her. At one point, they even cut off all her hair and lock her in a cupboard, leaving her in there for three years. Except she went to fairyland, so it's all okay. Yup, Coriander is one of those characte...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Emily Simmerock rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, instalove, so-very-sad

I believe this is one of those select fairy tales that you have to be older to appreciate. I first received this book as a child, maybe ten years old, and tried to read it. I grew bored and impatient, as most ten-year-olds are, and wrote it off as a bad book. I got to organizing my bookshelves several years later, and came across it. Having it in my mindset that I would,once again, despise it, imagine my surprise and pleasure when I found the truth. I simply...loved this book. I found myself hav

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May 23, 2009 Allison (The Allure of Books) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009, own-it, historical-fantasy

This book is magnificent, really. I am in awe of Sally Gardner, who didn't even learn how to read or write until she was 14 due to dyslexia! She sure showed all the people that wrote her off, didn't she?

This is a fairy tale...the story is lovely and lyrical and SO well written. It was at times hilarious...and other times, gut-wrenchingly horrifying. The evil stepmother is taken to a whole new level in Maud Leggs and Arise Fell.

The storyline with the prince isn't very well developed, but that is...more

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Aug 01, 2009 Becky rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Becky by: Allison Mason

Shelves: fantasy, historical-fiction, young-adult, 2009, dystopias, multi-dimensional, political, religion-related, reviewed

This was a lovely little fairy-tale story. I can just imagine reading this to little girls, who will inevitably beg for just one more chapter before having to go to bed. It's so easy to imagine said little girls dreaming of being a fairy princess, even though this isn't your typical fairy princess story.

From the very start, this story reminded me strongly of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Except, this story was much more entertaining, and fun, and concise. And not a single...more This was a lovely little fairy-tale story. I can just imagine reading this to little girls, who will inevitably beg for just one more chapter before having to go to bed. It's so easy to imagine said little girls dreaming of being a fairy princess, even though this isn't your typical fairy princess story.

From the very start, this story reminded me strongly of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Except, this story was much more entertaining, and fun, and concise. And not a single footnote!

There was a lot of stuff to love in this story. It catered to my love of historical fiction. I always enjoy well-written stories that are set back in time a ways. Generally, the further back the better. I love immersing myself in a different time with different mentalities and ideas and concepts, and I especially love it when there is a strong character I can identify with that's going with me.

Coriander was absolutely strong, and I loved her. She never let anyone take her dignity and identity away from her, even in a time when women were considered property and were thought to be nothing more than feeble-minded breeding house-keepers. Coriander refused to let herself be put into that particular box, and I loved her spunk for it.

This book also placed a lot of emphasis on religious and political persecution. This always interests me, because I'm a "Live and Let Live" kind of girl. I don't care what you believe, as long as you don't try to foist that belief on me against my will. I guess this makes me a little morbidly curious to read about people who just have to "cleanse", "convert", "fix" the "unbelievers" around them. I was really kind of fascinated with Maud Leggs and Arise Fell in this story because of that. Of course, they couldn't care less whether you believed. They just derived a sick pleasure out of the conversion process.

I definitely enjoyed reading this story. It was interesting and fun, and was a well-blended mix of history and fairy-tale. I think it would have been 5 star quality if it had wrapped just a few things up a little better, like who Medlar was, and how the time system worked, etc, but I think this is a solid 4 star book, even lacking those things. I would definitely recommend it for anyone looking for a light, fun read. (less)

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Jul 11, 2008 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: youngadult

A very different book! The cover and the description of it make it seem like it's for younger readers, a magical story about a girl with magical slippers. It's not! It's a very fascinating, multi-faceted tale about life in London during Cromwell's revolution, with its passionate politics and literal witch hunts. It's a story about fairies, and witches, friendship and love, evil preachers, charlatans, tailors, and spies. During the course of the book, Coriander ages from a naive nine to being a y...more

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Apr 21, 2011 Misty rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: juvenile-ya, recommended, own, folklore-myth-fable-fairy-tall-tale, read-in-2011, historical

This is really just under a four. Woulda been a solid 4, but the ending knocked it back to 3.5 territory.

Sally Gardner pulled no punches in I, Coriander. Her Cromwell-era England is harsh and full and the perfect backdrop to the very dark - and very darkly human - tale she tells. No one's life is simple or all that pretty in the book, but Coriander's is made even less so upon the arrival of her strictly religious stepmother, Maug Leggs, and Maud's...'preacher' Arise Fell. Maud is pretty damn bad...more

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Oct 15, 2008 Miss Clark rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of Fairytales and Sally Gardner

Shelves: anglo-phile, children-s, fairytale-fantasy-sci-fi-mythology

I enjoyed the fairytale aspects of this book and I really wanted to give it three stars, both for a unique writing style and the artful inclusion of the history of the period, which I thought was done very well. I especially liked how Gardner presented such a wide range of poltical and religious viewpoints, but allowed the individuals that held them, like Ned or even Coriander, who is literally of another world, to all be able to show true tolerance for the other person and respect their belief,...more

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May 05, 2008 LFPL Teen Services rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fans of fairy tale novelizations

Shelves: historical_fiction, coming-of-age, romance, tween

Coriander is a girl living in Puritan-oppressed England. When her beautiful and kind mother dies in a mysterious way, her father is forced to marry Maude, a so-called holy woman with a daughter of her own. Soon after their marriage, Coriander's father flees into exile, as he is a royalist and is threated by the Puritan government. Maude, an evil woman, verbally abuses Corinader and her new sister Hester and encourages the live-in reverend to physically abuse her.

Periodically, the magical world t...more

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May 04, 2007 Clelland rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: People who like a twisted tale

I loved this book. It was so refreshing to finally have an author capture the true essence and dignity of a child. Here's the thing: Do you remember that teacher in school that gave you respect and treated you like an adult. You were held accountable, treated with respect, and your opinions were really appreciated. For some reason, people talk down to children or act like they are not that intelligent. Kinda like a person talking really loud and slow to a deaf person. It looks stupid and doesn't...more

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Oct 24, 2012 Cheryl in CC NV rated it 3 of 5 stars

Spellbinding. All the attention to sensory detail made the experience of reading it so immersive I finished the book in one late night. Dramatic & atmospheric, full of allusions and symbolism. Good vs. evil - the only truly complex character is Coriander's father who is a good man who makes some bad decisions. I especially loved how painlessly I actually learned a bit more about English history, both political and cultural. I'm excited to discuss this in the Children's Books group - come joi...more

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Nov 27, 2012 Brittany added it · review of another edition

Genre- fantasy

Summary: set in 1650s, I,Coriander tells the tale of tragedy in during the time of Puritan England. After both her mother and father pass and leave coriander hobie is left at the mercy of her wicked stepmother. After being confined to a dresser shelf, coriander escapes to a fairy land where she is able to master skills that will help her in the future.

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2) although I,Coriander is a complete fantasy tale full of fairies and a wondrous land, Sally Gardner stays t...more

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May 03, 2011 Project rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: english, civil, war, cromwell, puritans, fairy, history, london, magic, magical, girl, royalists

Coriander tells us of her adventures in the form of a written memoir, a saga set in the time of the aftermath of the English Civil War. King Charles is dead, and "Old Noll" Oliver Cromwell holds the nation in his Puritanical grip. In the midst of this, Coriander's family is riven by troubles not only of this world, but of the fairy world as well. Forces are at work to deny her her rightful inheritance, and to allow a usurper to control the fairy world, just as Cromwell is controlling England.[re...more Coriander tells us of her adventures in the form of a written memoir, a saga set in the time of the aftermath of the English Civil War. King Charles is dead, and "Old Noll" Oliver Cromwell holds the nation in his Puritanical grip. In the midst of this, Coriander's family is riven by troubles not only of this world, but of the fairy world as well. Forces are at work to deny her her rightful inheritance, and to allow a usurper to control the fairy world, just as Cromwell is controlling England.[return][return]Gardner writes prose that has just the right sound to it to be believable as seventeenth century English, without going down the whole Shakespeare path. Speaking of Shakespeare, her story is set fifty years after his death, and the London we find ourselves in is a very different one to that of the Bard. The theatres are closed, religious fundamentalism stalks the streets, and fear is lurking behind every door.[return][return]She has beautifully apt similes peppered throughout the text, and the descriptive passages carry the sort of evocation that one gets when the author is in love with her setting. At one point Coriander says, "My hands were as cold as my feet...", and, just in that offhand detail we are reminded that this is a girl living in a very different place to our own.[return][return]Coriander's adventures are of the rollicking variety, with plenty of derring-do, and our heroine is of the modern style: she is educated (unusual for a girl of her time), she feels constrained by the girlishness of being a girl, and she wants to marry for love, not business. All very C21 attitudes, but ones that Gardner makes credible. [return][return]Perhaps Coriander's connection to the fairy world is what makes her so different.[return][return]Structurally, the novel is divided into "candles" - Coriander tells us a passage of her history set over the burning of a candle as she is writing it down. This is a cute approach, and i can imagine it would be a cute way to read the book, completing one candle a night, and turning off your bedside light when Coriander says, "And so [that] part of my tale is finished, and with it a candle goes out."[return][return]The novel was the Gold award winner (2005) of the Nestle Children's Book Prize. Nestle doesn't always have the best interests of children at heart, but here they seem to have shown some exceptional good judgement.(less)

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Mar 12, 2013 Mia Rynbrandt rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It was a Friday morning and we had what we like to call "A Book Challenge" at homeschool. This meant that my mom picked out some books for us, and we spent the day reading. As long as we stayed in our rooms and continued to read, we didn't have to do that day's school work.

I had just finished reading Child from the Sea, and Children of the New Forest, so I was well informed about the British civil war, and Oliver Cromwell's reign. Because the book was written about England during that time, my m...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Azure rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-1-12

Coriander lives a good life until her mother dies when she is young and her father remarries another woman- then has to run for his life. Coriander's stepmother is an abusive puritan, and her 'partner in crime'- a minister named Arise- is even more cruel. They try to kill Coriander by shutting her up in a chest, but Coriander is instead transported to a different world, a fairy realm. As it turns out, Coriander's mother was a fairy and came from this world. But things are not well in this realm...more

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Dec 06, 2012 Ping rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a lovely book that I enjoyed so much when I was younger. Coriander, a young girl that lives with her father and mother in 17th century London, has a fairy-tale life. Her only worries are the stuffed crocodile in the study of her father and a pair of silver shoes that her mother doesn't let her have. It's not until her mother dies mysteriously and her father needs to remarry that everything goes downhill. And though Coriander feels worthless, the stephmother of her mother is after her, an...more

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Jun 19, 2012 Hakkalina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It was ? read, well, I am still looking for the right word.... Since I did not like very much darkness of this era. Its cover, which is very bright, does not give back the darkness of the story, well, I expected a light read, but I got a tough one, and not because of the story itself, that was very simple, predictable at least considering the heroine's journey... but the used words, vocabulary. made this story so dark.

The story was taken place from 1643, yeah those years are not known from their...more

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Dec 04, 2011 Amy rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

While this book was a very unique and frequently well-written story, I did not enjoy it. The more the book went on, the more convenient things became. By the end all I could think of was "what the heck?"
The plot surrounds young Coriander Hobie, who at age six disobeys her mother and puts on a pair of silver shoes that transport her to another world. Upon returning, her mother dies, an evil step-mother appears, and her Father disappears.
Sounds like a perfect Cinderella set-up.
But it isn't! I, C...more

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Dec 01, 2011 Carolynne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, historical-fiction, england

Like _The Perilous Gard_, this is a variation on the Tam Lin story. And like _Perilous Gard_, it is set in a historical period that is vividly and convincingly drawn. I, Coriander is set in the Puritan period in England and the early years of the Restoration. Spoiler ahead: Master Hobie, Coriander's father, is in danger because of his support of Charles I, which causes him to leave his Thameside home and his outspoken daughter in the care of his vicious Puritan second wife, Maud. Maud is surely...more

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Dec 16, 2010 Karin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fairytale, faeries, fantasy, families, religion, young-adult-fiction, alternative-history, romantic, borrowed-from-the-library

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Coriander’s family has fallen on hard times. Their fortunes, which were good for many years begin to turn with the sickness and eventual death of Coriander’s mother. But Coriander suspects that things may have started even before then, when she received the pair of silver fairy shoes. After her mother dies, Coriander’s father is suspected of being a Royalist and is encouraged to marry a Puritan woman to show his devotion to Oliver Cromwell and the republic. His new wife, Maud, is a vicious woman...more Coriander’s family has fallen on hard times. Their fortunes, which were good for many years begin to turn with the sickness and eventual death of Coriander’s mother. But Coriander suspects that things may have started even before then, when she received the pair of silver fairy shoes. After her mother dies, Coriander’s father is suspected of being a Royalist and is encouraged to marry a Puritan woman to show his devotion to Oliver Cromwell and the republic. His new wife, Maud, is a vicious woman who beats her daughter, Hester and is obsessed with her angry God. When Maud realizes that she cannot control her new husband or his household, she gets him in trouble with the authorities claiming that he’s a Royalist and that his previous wife was a witch. He flees and leaves Coriander on her own. Things get worse when Maud allows Arise Fell, a fallen preacher, to stay with them. He is an even greater tyrant and is cruel to everyone he encounters. Things come to a head and Arise Fell locks Coriander in a chest in her father’s study – and leaves her there for 3 years. During this time, however, Coriander is in another land – the fairy land – where she discovers her mother was a fairy princess and that the evil queen of the fairies is still trying to recover her mother’s shadow (hidden somewhere in Coriander’s house). Only the defeat of the evil queen can save the fairy prince, Tycho, whom she transforms into a fox that he may be hunted down and killed.

When Coriander returns to the human world, it is just in time to be rescued by her friend the tailor and his apprentice, Gabriel. They also take Hester away with them. The evil fairy queen continues to harass Maud and Arise Fell about the shadow. Eventually, Hester is kidnapped and must be rescued again. Gabriel and Coriander disguise themselves and free Hester, but Coriander is unable to discover the whereabouts of the shadow. She overhears the evil queen and Maud arguing and learns that it may be hidden in the mouth of the alligator that sits in her father’s study, and she resolves to return to steal it. When she does return, however, the evil queen comes for her. She is transported back to the realm of fairy where she manages to save the prince and defeat the queen. Although she loves the fairy prince, she feels she cannot stay in fairy with him, so she returns to the human world. There she is reunited with her family – her father is safely returned, the king is back on the throne and fortune is smiling on Coriander’s family once again – except that she doesn’t have her prince. But he, too, returns to her in the form of the new king and they live, presumably, happily ever after.

This was a great read and those who like fairy tales will definitely recognize themes and the storytelling will feel quite comfortable. It felt so very old and fairy tale, I felt sure it was based on some story. At first I thought it would be a beauty and the beast tale because of the father’s reversal of fortunes, and then I thought it would be a Cinderella tale because of the cruel stepmother and Coriander’s being stuck with so much of the housework (and the silver shoes made me think: oh! fairy godmother!). Instead it had elements of those stories, but was a unique tale (or at least one I’m not completely familiar with). Coriander was a strong female character and she does her own fair share of rescuing folks.(less)

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Dec 02, 2010 Jane rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: borrowed

“I am Coriander Hobie.

I was born in the year of Our Lord 1643, the only child of Thomas and Eleanor Hobie, in our great house on the River Thames in London. Of my early years I remember only happiness. That was before I knew this world had such evil in it, and that my fate was to be locked up in a chest and left to die.

This is my story. This is my life.”

And it is a wonderful story, quite beautifully told.

Coriander writes her story of life in 1650s London by candlelight, with each of her seven c...more

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Jul 03, 2010 Carmine rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: middle school girls

Recommended to Carmine by: Anna S.

Shelves: folk-and-fairytales, fantasy, young-adult

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Mar 22, 2010 Lushbug rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Loved this novel from its first words. Immediatley taken back to C17th London just after kiing charles I has been beheaded and the puritans are out in force accusing all and sundry of witchcraft and making people fearful for their lives. Its to this backdrop that the story begins.

Its essentially a fairy story-part cinderella part the Snow Queen. A young girl grows up in an idylic family-much doted upon by her mother and father. One day she gets sent some beautiful silver shoes but her mother wo...more

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Jan 18, 2010 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, ya

I, Coriander is an original fairy tale for young adults set in the aftermath of Charles I's execution. With its emphasis on the interweaving of the mundane and fairy worlds, this novel also reminded me of Stardust at times, although more emphasis is placed on the historical setting and less on mythological puzzle-solving. Because I, Coriander isn't a traditional historical fantasy, there may be fantasy lovers bored by the historical aspects of the tale, and history lovers turned off by the fanta...more I, Coriander is an original fairy tale for young adults set in the aftermath of Charles I's execution. With its emphasis on the interweaving of the mundane and fairy worlds, this novel also reminded me of Stardust at times, although more emphasis is placed on the historical setting and less on mythological puzzle-solving. Because I, Coriander isn't a traditional historical fantasy, there may be fantasy lovers bored by the historical aspects of the tale, and history lovers turned off by the fantasy bits;these aspects aren't stitched together as seamlessly as some might like. However, I felt the story was better than the sum of its parts, and believe the open-minded reader will find it a beautifully written and well-imagined tale.

Coriander Hobie is born to wealthy parents in 1643. Her father is a silk merchant whereas her mother is a wise woman, using the herbs grown in her garden to tend to her neighbors' needs. When Coriander is given a pair of silver shoes, and then forbidden to wear them, she puts them on and is given glimpses of another, magical world. Meanwhile, her own life in the tumultuous world of seventeenth century London begins to unwind, her father forced to flee due to his royalist sympathies and her personal life becoming a Cinderella-like nightmare.

I, Corander is one of those books for which I'm tempted to second guess my initial reactions, and go down a star in my review. There are a lot of problems that come up when analyzing the book that didn't seem as important when I was reading. Part of that is the narrative voice, which completely won me over to Coriander's point of view. Lyrical without being ponderous, Coriander's voice is elegant, authentic and charming, which for me goes a long way in excusing the flaws in the plot. Which, in addition to the less than perfect blending of the historical and mythical settings mentioned above, include exaggerated villains (I call them "ugly-bads," because the worse they behave, the uglier they get) and a romance that happens far too quickly to believe. But those are common traits of fairy tales, so they bothered me less than they might in another genre. To my mind, I, Coriander is one of those stories that either wins you over completely or leaves you in the dust. I recommend it for fairy tale lovers in the mood to get lost in a book.(less)

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Apr 20, 2012 Jenne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Coriander lives in London at a time of political instability. Charles I, King of England has been beheaded and now Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans hold the country. But this means little to Coriander for her world only contains her parents and their friends. But when a pair of silver shoes arrive at the house the outside worlds begin to encroach on hers.

By the light of seven candles, Coriander tells her story. It is a tale of silver shoes, a stuffed alligator, lost treasure and fairies; for Cor...more

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Nov 26, 2011 Candice Beever rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Sometimes, the best books are the ones you expect nothing from. I had never heard of this book before. But it was on sale for $3 and the synopsis sounded interesting. So, why not?

The main plot of the story is that Coriander has to defeat her wicked step-grandmother by finding her mother's shadow. But Coriander knows nothing about the fairy world that her mother came from. The "real world" side of the story is set in Puritan England. I enjoyed the setting of both worlds as they shifted from the h...more

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Aug 19, 2011 Matt Richter rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult

I enjoyed this book very much! Especially the first 70% of the book was simply wondrous. There's a great balance of story set in historical England interconnected with a magical fantasy world. I found the plight of the young heroine, Coriander, highly engrossing.

In the closing sections of the book though the climax seemed rather rushed, the last section felt like an overlong epilogue and the plot seemed to tie up a little too neatly.

I particularly like Gardner's emotive and perfectly fitting d...more

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Jan 27, 2013 Elise rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read "I, Coriander" with my eight year old daughter, and we thoroughly enjoyed Gardner's lyrical writing style in this original fairy tale set into motion by a mysterious pair of silver shoes. The author engages the senses so well that she put us right there in London during Oliver Cromwell's dictatorship. And the protagonist's travels between two worlds
--17th century London and the fairy world of Queen Rosmore--was also a treat, but at times my daughter said that the book would have been too...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Alison rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: confident-readers-chapter-books

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Feb 24, 2011 Friends of Linebaugh Library rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is magnificent, really. I am in awe of Sally Gardner, who didn't even learn how to read or write until she was 14 due to dyslexia! She sure showed all the people that wrote her off, didn't she?

It is a beautiful, modern-written (but not modern setting --- 1600s) fairy tale. This fairy tale...the story is lovely and lyrical and SO well written. It was at times hilarious...and other times, gut-wrenchingly horrifying. The evil stepmother is taken to a whole new level in Maud Leggs and Ari...more

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Jun 09, 2008 Molly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: authors-i-adore, recommended-reads

I was a big of this when I read it a few years ago. It had a few logical flaws and flew pretty far under the radar as far as acclaim but I loved it anyway. Delicious magical realism combined with history, and gorgeous writing on top.

I'll fully admit that part of my love is because of that elegantly creepy, haunting cover! I can't explain why it sucks me in--but I could look at it for HOURS!!

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“The floor had become a sea and the bed a ship, seen from a great distance. I could hear their voices calling me from far away. It lasted a minute or less. Maybe I dreamed it. Maybe I did not. It was an image that came to haunt me, and I have often wondered what would have happened if I had done as I was told and left the silver shoes alone. Would everything then have been alright?” — 8 people liked it

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