Kelly Barnhill
Autor(a) de The Girl Who Drank the Moon
About the Author
Kelly Barnhill is a children's book author. Her novels include The Mostly True Story of Jack, Iron Hearted Violet, The Witch's Boy, and The Girl Who Drank the Moon, which received the 2017 John Newbery Medal. She has also received the World Fantasy Award, the Parents Choice Gold Award, the Texas mostrar mais Library Association Bluebonnet award, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Kelly Barnhill
Do You Know Where Your Water Has Been? The Disgusting Story Behind What You're Drinking (2009) 23 exemplares
Sewers and the Rats That Love Them: The Disgusting Story Behind Where It All Goes (2009) 11 exemplares
Probably Still the Chosen One 4 exemplares
Elegy to Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores, and Righteous Thieves [short story] 4 exemplares
The Insect and the Astronomer: A Love Story 1 exemplar
The Taxidermist's Other Wife 1 exemplar
The Stone-hearted Queen 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Contribuidor — 431 exemplares
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015) — Contribuidor — 298 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Thirteen (2019) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Twelve (2018) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 15: Worldcon 2008 Special (2008) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 13 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1973-12-07
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Locais de residência
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Educação
- St. Catherine University
- Agente
- Stephen Malk
Membros
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 30
- Also by
- 16
- Membros
- 7,122
- Popularidade
- #3,449
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 359
- ISBN
- 184
- Línguas
- 15
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
What does this mean? The good life is just like the old life, only without men? Internal change changes everything: before enlightenment cut wood and carry water, after enlightenment cut wood and carry water? The message is mysterious.
Although, bakery dragons and alternative schooling dragons -- that is just the sort of thing that would happen in Madison. There's not a whole lot of evocative sense of place writing in this book. The author is better at writing people than places, and that's okay; it's certainly better for a book to have plot and character than geography, if you have to choose. But the dragon culture is pure 1970s Madison, after the riots were over and the Vietnam War ended. I recognized the milieu and the dragon spirit.
But the dragons who flew off to the moons of Jupiter were awe-inspiring. I wish we heard more about them.… (mais)