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Happy World Book Night 2014!

One of my favorite fairy tales, 
ENCHANTED by Alethea Kontis,
was chosen as a 2014 title!!!

Don't know what World Book Night is?
Check out the website!

But in brief (Directly from their website):

World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person. Each year on April 23 –Shakespeare’s birthday– tens of thousands of people in the U.S. go out into their communities and give a total of half a million free World Book Night paperbacks to light and non-readers.

To celebrate the honor, Alethea Kontis has a very special fairy tale rant to share today in honor of this special occasion!

For those who don't know, Alethea does these AMAZING Fairy Tale Rant videos on YouTube,
In Which Princess Alethea gives the low-down on fairy tales as originally told by the Grimms, Andrew Lang, Hans Christian Andersen, and others.

Today, Alethea is ranting about Cinderella and how it inspired ENCHANTED!

Check it out now:

YouTube Link


I've previously reviewed Alethea Kontis' novella BLOOD AND WATER, her debut novel ENCHANTED, and her newest novel, HERO.

I've also interviewed author Alethea Kontis, and interviewed ENCHANTED cover designer Christine Kettner! Alethea has also written a guest post on "Families in Fiction" for the HERO Blog Tour and written a short story for last year's Splash into Summer event entitled "Well Behaved Mermaids Rarely Make Fairy Tales!"

Alethea has also filmed a fairy tale rant on Rapunzel for this year's A Week of Rapunzel event!

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New York Times bestselling author Alethea Kontis is a princess, a goddess, a force of nature, and a mess. She’s known for screwing up the alphabet, scolding vampire hunters, turning garden gnomes into mad scientists, and making sense out of fairy tales. Alethea is the co-author of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter Companion, and penned the AlphaOops series of picture books. Her short fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in a myriad of anthologies and magazines. She has done multiple collaborations with Eisner winning artist J.K. Lee, including The Wonderland Alphabet and Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome. Her debut YA fairy tale novel, Enchanted, won the Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award in 2012 and was nominated for both the Andre Norton Award and the Audie Award in 2013.

Visit Alethea's website, YouTube Channel, Facebook, and Twitter!

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O F F I C I A L   I N F O:

Title: ENCHANTED

Author: Alethea Kontis

Release Date: Out May 08, 2012

Publisher: Harcourt Children's

Received: Received for Review;
have also read my own finished copy!

SUMMARY:

It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.

When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.

The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past - and hers?

Title: HERO

Author: Alethea Kontis

Release Date: Oct. 1, 2013

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

SUMMARY:

Rough and tumble Saturday Woodcutter thinks she's the only one of her sisters without any magic—until the day she accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard. 

With her sword in tow, Saturday sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidnapped and whisked off to the top of the world. 

Is Saturday powerful enough to kill the mountain witch who holds her captive and save the world from sure destruction? And, as she wonders grumpily, "Did romance have to be part of the adventure?" 

As in ENCHANTED, readers will revel in the fragments of fairy tales that embellish this action-packed story of adventure and, yes, romance.