Reviews
Newbery Medalist Schlitz delivers many pleasures-fully dimensional children, period details so ripe one can nearly smell them, and droll humor that leavens a few scenes of true horror. A highly original tale about children caught in a harrowing world of magic and misdeeds. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) A brooding Dickensian novel with a touch of fantasy and a glimmer of hope. . . Vividly portrayed and complex, the characters are well defined individuals whose separate strands of story are colorful and compelling. Schlitz weaves them into an intricate tapestry that is as mysterious and timeless as a fairy tale. -Booklist (starred review) Two orphans, a witch and a girl who laughs at death: Each shares the lens of protagonist in Newbery-winner Schlitz's fully satisfying gothic novel...Schlitz's prose is perfect in every stitch, and readers will savor each word. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Few books can be called both delightful and eerie - this novel is one. Utterly transporting. -Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal Winner Settle down; prepare for mesmerism: Laura Amy Schlitz is behind the curtain, ready to show us a story that has real magic lacing through it. -Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and What the Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy Thrilling and masterful. The characters are real humans, trapped upon the page as if by magic. The plotting is relentless . . . and then resolves into a perfect crystal. The book is beautiful. You will bark with laughter and you will cry. I did. -Adam Gidwitz, author of A Tale Dark and Grimm A wonderfully twisty, creepy melodrama with three heroes to love, two villains to hate, and then at the end - but I won't tell, except to say it's totally satisfying. -Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist and Edgar Award winner, A brooding Dickensian novel with a touch of fantasy and a glimmer of hope. . . Vividly portrayed and complex, the characters are well defined individuals whose separate strands of story are colorful and compelling. Schlitz weaves them into an intricate tapestry that is as mysterious and timeless as a fairy tale. -Booklist (starred review) Few books can be called both delightful and eerie - this novel is one. Utterly transporting. -Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal Winner Settle down; prepare for mesmerism: Laura Amy Schlitz is behind the curtain, ready to show us a story that has real magic lacing through it. -Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and What the Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy Thrilling and masterful. The characters are real humans, trapped upon the page as if by magic. The plotting is relentless . . . and then resolves into a perfect crystal. The book is beautiful. You will bark with laughter and you will cry. I did. -Adam Gidwitz, author of A Tale Dark and Grimm A wonderfully twisty, creepy melodrama with three heroes to love, two villains to hate, and then at the end - but I won't tell, except to say it's totally satisfying. -Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist and Edgar Award winner, Few books can be called both delightful and eerie - this novel is one. Utterly transporting. -Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal Winner Settle down; prepare for mesmerism: Laura Ann Schlitz is behind the curtain, ready to show us a story that has real magic lacing through it. -Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and What the Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy Thrilling and masterful. The characters are real humans, trapped upon the page as if by magic. The plotting is relentless . . . and then resolves into a perfect crystal. The book is beautiful. You will bark with laughter and you will cry. I did. -Adam Gidwitz, author of A Tale Dark and Grimm A wonderfully twisty, creepy melodrama with three heroes to love, two villains to hate, and then at the end - but I won't tell, except to say it's totally satisfying. -Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist and Edgar Award winner, A wonderfully twisty, creepy melodrama with three heroes to love, two villains to hate, and then at the end - but I won't tell, except to say it's totally satisfying. -Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist and Edgar Award winner, A brooding Dickensian novel with a touch of fantasy and a glimmer of hope. . . Vividly portrayed and complex, the characters are well defined individuals whose separate strands of story are colorful and compelling. Schlitz weaves them into an intricate tapestry that is as mysterious and timeless as a fairy tale. -Booklist (starred review) Two orphans, a witch and a girl who laughs at death: Each shares the lens of protagonist in Newbery-winner Schlitz's fully satisfying gothic novel...Schlitz's prose is perfect in every stitch, and readers will savor each word. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Few books can be called both delightful and eerie - this novel is one. Utterly transporting. -Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal Winner Settle down; prepare for mesmerism: Laura Amy Schlitz is behind the curtain, ready to show us a story that has real magic lacing through it. -Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and What the Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy Thrilling and masterful. The characters are real humans, trapped upon the page as if by magic. The plotting is relentless . . . and then resolves into a perfect crystal. The book is beautiful. You will bark with laughter and you will cry. I did. -Adam Gidwitz, author of A Tale Dark and Grimm A wonderfully twisty, creepy melodrama with three heroes to love, two villains to hate, and then at the end - but I won't tell, except to say it's totally satisfying. -Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist and Edgar Award winner, Few books can be called both delightful and eerie - this novel is one. Utterly transporting. -Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal Winner Settle down; prepare for mesmerism: Laura Amy Schlitz is behind the curtain, ready to show us a story that has real magic lacing through it. -Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and What the Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy Thrilling and masterful. The characters are real humans, trapped upon the page as if by magic. The plotting is relentless . . . and then resolves into a perfect crystal. The book is beautiful. You will bark with laughter and you will cry. I did. -Adam Gidwitz, author of A Tale Dark and Grimm A wonderfully twisty, creepy melodrama with three heroes to love, two villains to hate, and then at the end - but I won't tell, except to say it's totally satisfying. -Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist and Edgar Award winner
