6/27/2023 0 Comments The midnight circus book![]() ![]() Her story “Requiem Antarctica,” for instance, a collaboration with Robert J. Her foreword and endnotes offer additional context for the work, creating a satisfying - if often unsettling - reading experience.Īlthough she draws from conventional roots, Yolen has a talent for mashing up traditions to create something entirely her own. Her menagerie of stories is distilled from a cauldron of fairytales, legends, and history, featuring everything from selkies to shapeshifters witches, weavers, and warriors and angels murderous to ravenous. This collection teems with Yolen’s weird, folkloric verve. It is true to the real tradition of Andersen: mesmerizing, haunting, and often not for the faint of heart. Her work is not Andersen Americanized: sanitized, watered-down, Disney-fied. ![]() ![]() Yolen is often dubbed “the Hans Christian Andersen of America,” but that should not be misunderstood. From her first novel in 1969 to this phantasmagorical assortment of stories and poems spanning the 1970s to 2020, she has amassed an eye-popping bibliography of over 370 books. The Midnight Circus is the latest dark and trippy collection from award-winning author Jane Yolen. ![]()
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