Karen Cushman

Karen Cushman

Newbery award-winning children’s book author

Karen Cushman

Dragonswood

DragonswoodI am attempting to bend my historiclal-fiction mind into fantasy shape and so, to inspire me, I’ve been reading fantasy. The results? Feh, ugh, eww, eh, and, finally, wow! The wow book is Dragonswood by Janet Lee Carey, and I loved it. It’s mysterious and romantic, about truth and friendship, loyalty, courage, and trust. Tess, half human and half fey, longs for her place in the world. She wants more than marriage and an ordinary life but what does she want? And then she runs afoul of the witch hunter…I enjoyed the book so much that I sought out Janet’s first dragon story, Dragon’s Keep, and I am gobbling that one up, too. Thank you, Janet. And to paraphrase Oliver Twist, may we have some more please?