(4) YA When Clare Macleod returns to Ireland after years away, her dreams of fairies and magic suddenly make a lot more sense. She meets and is instantly drawn to Finn, a half-fairy who enlists her help to preserve the gate between worlds. Self-consciously lyrical prose is likely to turn off as many readers as it enraptures.

Reviewer: Norah Piehl

(2) 4-6 Also by Emma Trevayne. Illustrated by Alexander Jansson. Four "curators"--Bachmann, Catmull, Legrand, and Trevayne--fill their Cabinet of Curiosities museum with objects of wonder as well as the (often unearthly) tales behind them. The stories are remarkable both for their uniformly high quality and for their distinctness from one another; the abundant atmospherics, including occasional stark black-and-white illustrations, provide a unifying sense of dread.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2014

(4) 4-6 Fairy-tale imagery meets allegory in this charming fantasy. Sisters Summer and Bird discover their parents have disappeared overnight, and a clue leads them into the nearby forest--and then into the ravaged bird-populated world of Down. Separated, they must find their parents, vanquish the voracious fowl-eating Puppeteer, and save the birds. Despite lovely language, a listless pace will lose many readers.

Reviewer: Norah Piehl