Ooh! Look at this! Laurel Snyder and Dan Santat (who recently wrote and illustrated The Aquanaut) team up for Endlessly Ever After: Pick Your Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings! Can you narratively navigate through the dark wood and avoid the hungry wolf? Can you find the golden goose? Watch out for the angry pig! Oh my! You’ve …
Fans of Marissa Meyer, it’s time to check out another author. Kalynn Bayron takes on fairy tales in fantastic new ways. It’s feminist, queer, powerful, and above a a dark and twisty mystery. And if you haven’t read Cinderella Is Dead, then there are two books that need to climb up your TBR list. –Laura …
Set in Alaska in the 1920s, a husband and wife are drifting apart. Unable to have their own child, they create one out of snow one night, and it changes their whole lives. This novel is full of rich imagery and wonderful characters. Eowyn Ivey has written a beautiful fairy tale that really reaches out …
Hello, loverlies! After being quiet–at least on NW Book Lovers, as I certainly haven’t been quiet elsewhere–I am back for a new adventure. Turning Pages has gone into semi-retirement to make way for…The Bodice Riffer! (Thanks to our own Brian Juenemann for that pun-derful title.) Each month(-ish, because I’m still me), I’ll give you the …
Six-Gun Snow White is a quiet delight that demands to be read aloud, preferably by Sam Elliott. Valente has taken the Snow White story and reforged it into a Wild West with a pinch of magic and while there are nods to what you know and have read before (her horse is named Charming… because …
