Welcome to Litsy!

repost for @PuddleJumper:

January's author is Malinda Lo!

I've read and enjoyed some of her YA/retelling books. I enjoyed Huntress and Ash. Anyone else have any recommendations? Drop them below

I'm going to #QueerBC May-May so I'll refresh the author list then and I'll do some feedback stuff March/April to see how to improve it

Thank you to everyone who has participated. I hope you are enjoying yourself and discovered some new authors

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I think my interest in/enjoyment of this second book was colored by both how demanding real life is right now & how much I absolutely loved the first one.
Seeing Lord Blackthorn again was fun as he was such a memorable side character from the first book, and I liked the upstairs/downstairs aspects and learning about more details of faerie.
So I liked it, just not as much as book 1.

“‘Tonight I am transformed,‘ she whispered. ‘Tomorrow I shall disappear.‘”

This one is so fun! Godmothered on Disney+ #wintergames #christmaschapterchasers @StayCurious

I love this book

Yeh-Shen has large blocks of text with some more complex vocabulary. For younger children, it would be best to start with a read-aloud to explore vocabulary.

A Cinderella retelling using Chinese folklore. It keeps with the conventions of the Cinderella story we are familiar with, with a few changes (a fish and a fairy god-uncle). The illustrations, rather than the story, are responsible for featuring ancient Chinese culture.

Her loveliness made her seem a heavenly being, and the king suddenly knew in his heart that he had found his true love.

With my little song I promise to be strong!

pretty illustrations- very stylized.