Book Review: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne M. Valente
td Whittle
Posted on January 8, 2014
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente Publisher of this 1st edition hard cover: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan, New York 2011. My rating: 5 of 5 stars I bought this book as a gift for my very young nieces, only to realise that I had misjudged the appropriate readership by about six years. So, I decided to read it myself, and I loved it. It’s brimming with the same lush imagery and sensual delights that one finds in Valente’s adult novels, amidst all the Fairyland glimmer, glamour, and ghastliness specific to this children’s tale. In both Valente’s adult novels and this one, her imagined worlds are equal parts terrifying and…