The Horn Book Guide

OLDER FICTION

Valente, Catherynne M.

The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

236 pp. | Feiwel | March, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-02349-0 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-250-07279-5

(2) YA Illustrated by Ana Juan. Infant troll Hawthorn is raised by a human couple in early-twentieth-century Chicago. He lives an unhappy life as "Thomas" until meeting fellow changeling Tamburlaine; the pair blunders their way back into Fairyland. Hawthorn/Thomas, an outsider in the human world and Fairyland alike, provides a perspective on both worlds that's by turns funny and poignant. Spot art captures the bizarre beauty of characters and settings.

Reviewer: Katie Bircher | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2015