“Grayling’s Song” is a wonderful book for the target age group of 10 – 12 year old readers, but it is also a book younger readers will enjoy. Karen Cushman has written a delightful story that may one day become a movie, joining “Brave”, “Tangled” and “Frozen” as a modern-classic animated film/5(35). Along the way, Grayling gathers a weather witch, a shape- shifting mouse, a glamorous enchantress, and a bumbling wizard—all made memorable by Kellgren’s infusions of personality. From velvety whispers to ear-piercing yells, Kellgren is at her best. As narrator, she Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. · "Like all Karen Cushman's gorgeous novels, Grayling's Song delves into the past to let us know what we must ask of our future. I want Cushman's books to raise my children for me: that way I can be assured they'll grow up witty, vastly knowledgeable, and tough as nails." —Lena Dunham (Girls)Brand: HMH Books.
Along the way, Grayling gathers a weather witch, a shape- shifting mouse, a glamorous enchantress, and a bumbling wizard—all made memorable by Kellgren's infusions of personality. From velvety whispers to ear-piercing yells, Kellgren is at her best. As narrator, she sets an atmospheric, mystical mood. By Karen Cushman. Clarion Books, June 7, I do love it when a girl learns to sing her own song. Especially when she's got that familiar inner voice telling her she can't do it. Such is the charm of GRAYLING'S SONG, Karen Cushman's latest, due out in June. Karen Cushman's books tend to have strong female protagonists who project a certain wisdom and realism about meeting life's challenges." (Emma Cassell, BookSource, "An Author Study on Wisdom, Wit, and Words") "There were things I loved about [Grayling's Song]: Pook, and his spontaneous, (occasionally) opportune shape-shifts; the eerie.
“Like all Karen Cushman's gorgeous novels, Grayling's Song delves into the past to let us know what we must ask of our future. I want Cushman's books to raise my children for me: that way I can be assured they'll grow up witty, vastly knowledgable, and tough as nails.” (Lena Dunham). “Grayling’s Song” is a wonderful book for the target age group of 10 – 12 year old readers, but it. It’s time for Grayling to be a hero. Her mother, a hedge witch, has been turned into a tree by evil forces. Tangles and toadstools! Lacking confidence after years of being called “Feeble Wits” by her mother, Grayling heads off dubiously into the wilds in search of help, where she finds a weather witch, an aromatic enchantress, a cheese soothsayer, a slyly foolish apprentice, and a shape.
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