The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (30 page)

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 Award—the 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

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Dramatis Personae

 

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 VI: Tamburlaine

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 X: The Painted Forest

Chapter XI: An Audience with the King

Chapter XII: The Crunching of the Crab

Chapter XIII: Unhappy Feet

Chapter XIV: The Changeling Room

Chapter XV: The Laundry Moose

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

 

About the Author

Copyright

 

A FEIWEL AND FRIENDS BOOK

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THE BOY WHO LOST FAIRYLAND.
Text copyright © 2015 by Catherynne M. Valente. Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Ana Juan. All rights reserved. For information, address Feiwel and Friends, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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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.—First edition. pages cm.—(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”—Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-250-02349-0 (hardback)—ISBN 978-1-250-07279-5 (e-book)

[1.   Fantasy.  2.   Trolls—Fiction.  3.   Changelings—Fiction.]  I.   Juan, Ana, illustrator.

II.   Title. PZ7.V232Boy 2015 [Fic]—dc23         2014042417

Feiwel and Friends logo designed by Filomena Tuosto

First Edition: 2015

eISBN 9781250072795

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