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Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (view source)
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''Cuckoo Song'' is worthy of the Carnegie long list as it challenges stereotypes. Like Chris Wooding's ""Poison"", it inverts usual fairy tale conventions and resets the boundaries. I enjoyed it and I hope you will too.
If you like elegantly crafted fantasy you should try [[The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman]], an inverted amalgam of well loved fairy tales exquisitely illustrated by Chris Riddell or for more sinister magic and menace [[Tinder by Sally Gardner]]. For a collection of fairy tale tropes such as mermaids, witches, goblins and dragons explore [[The Kingdom Under the Sea by Joan Aiken and Jan Pienkowski]] or experience the magical retelling of [[The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey]] set in 1920's Alaska. Alternatively if you would like something completely different which translates traditional fairy tales into an imaginative tour de force featuring a futuristic setting of lovelorn cyborgs and malicious moon queens why not lose yourself in [[The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder by Marissa Meyer]] and [[Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles, Book 2) by Marissa Meyer]]. You might also enjoy [[Impossible by Nancy Werlin]].
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