This week's WoW is one I discovered on someone else's WoW a few weeks back - I'm ashamed to say I can't remember who! - and after reading the synopsis (and falling in love with the cover!) I promptly went off to pre-order it.
'The end of their world begins with a story.
This one.
In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn't most fairy tales.
Princess
Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own
good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her
best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar
book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being -- called the Nybbas -- imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true -- not really. But
then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient,
scarred dragon, may hold the key to the Nybbas's triumph . . . or its
demise. It all depends on how they tell the story. After all, stories
make their own rules.
Iron Hearted Violet is
a story of a princess unlike any other. It is a story of the last
dragon in existence, deathly afraid of its own reflection. Above all, it
is a story about the power of stories, our belief in them, and how one
enchanted tale changed the course of an entire kingdom.'
Iron Hearted Violet
Kelly Barnhill
Little Brown For Young Readers
978-0316056731
October 9 2012
I've seen this one in many other WoW posts this week. I've never heard about it before, but I'm getting more and more curious about it :) Great pick, if you read it please let me know how you liked it!:)
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