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Tales of Elemental Creatures
By Dickinson, Peter
- ISBN
- 978-1-618730-58-9 978-1-618730-38-1
- Publisher
- Big Mouth
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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2012
Dickinson completes the series of “elemental” tales he began with his wife Robin McKinley (Water, rev. 7/02; Fire, rev. 11/09). Though links to the theme can be tenuous, these six new stories are provocative in both variety and ideas. “Troll Blood” features a scholarly May/December friendship founded on Old Norse; it bursts into action with an underwater rescue (think Beowulf) and includes romance and a neat genealogical twist. In “Wizand” a dynamic, self-renewing broom controls witches ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012 | Older Fiction
Dickinson completes the series of "elemental" tales he began with his wife Robin McKinley (<i>Water</i>; <i>Fire</i>). Though links to ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
