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Authors: Catherynne M. Valente
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
is the author of over a dozen books of fiction and poetry, and is best-known for her urban speculative fiction, including
Palimpsest
(winner of the 2010 Lambda Award), and
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden
.
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
, her first novel for young readers, was posted online in 2009 and won the Andre Norton Awardâthe first book to ever win before traditional publication. Cat Valente lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, and an enormous cat. You can sign up for email updates
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ANA JUAN
is a world-renowned illustrator known in this country for her wonderful covers for the New Yorker magazine, as well as the children's books
The Night Eater
, and
Frida
, written by Jonah Winter. She lives in Spain.
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CONTENTS
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Chapter I: Entrance, on a Panther
Chapter II: How to Send a Troll by Post
Chapter III: Troll to Boy, Boy to Troll
Chapter IV: The Wombat Prince of Chicago
Chapter V: The Adventures of Inspector Balloon
Chapter VII: The Monster on Top of the Bed
Chapter VIII: Please Be Wild and Wonderful
Chapter IX: The Emerald Thermodynamical Hyper-Jungle Law
Chapter XI: An Audience with the King
Chapter XII: The Crunching of the Crab
Chapter XIV: The Changeling Room
Chapter XVI: The Cranberry Bog
Chapter XVII: Jumping Bean Life by Wombat and Matchstick
Chapter XVIII: Someone Comes to Town
Chapter XIX: The Spinster and the King of Fairyland
Chapter XX: The Boy Who Was Lost, the Girl Who Was Found
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Valente, Catherynne M.,
The boy who lost Fairyland / Catherynne M. Valente;
illustrated by Ana Juan.âFirst edition. pages cm.â(Fairyland)
Summary: “A young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Golden Wind, and becomes a changeling in our world, a place no less bizarre than Fairyland in his eyes”âProvided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-250-02349-0 (hardback)âISBN 978-1-250-07279-5 (e-book)
[1.  Fantasy.  2.  TrollsâFiction.  3.  ChangelingsâFiction.]  I.  Juan, Ana, illustrator.
II.  Title. PZ7.V232Boy 2015 [Fic]âdc23         2014042417
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First Edition: 2015
eISBN 9781250072795