Iron Hearted Violet

By: Kelly Barnhill, Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 18 March 2014

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448 Pages

Age
9+

Grade
P - 2

Dimensions(cm)
24.9 x 17 x 6.7

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Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. But this isn't most fairy tales...

Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being, called the Nybbas, imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true--not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon-the last dragon in existence, in fact-may hold the key to the Nybbas's triumph or its demise. It all depends on how they tell the story. After all, stories make their own rules.

Iron Hearted Violet is a story about the power of stories, our belief in them, and how one enchanted tale changed the course of an entire kingdom.

A 2012 Andre Norton Award FinalistA Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner

About the Author

Kelly Barnhill is an author, teacher and mom. She wrote The Girl Who Drank The Moon, The Witch's Boy, Iron Hearted Violet, The Mostly True Story Of Jack and many, many short stories. She won the World Fantasy Award for her novella, The Unlicensed Magician, a Parents Choice Gold Award for Iron Hearted Violet, the Charlotte Huck Honor for The Girl Who Drank The Moon, and has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the Andre Norton award and the PEN/USA literary prize.

She was also a McKnight Artist's Fellowship recipient in Children's Literature. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her three brilliant children, architect husband, and emotionally-unstable dog. She is a fast runner, a good hiker, and a terrible gardener.

Industry Reviews

[Violet] is a princess for our century.--VOYA
A splendid fantasy...layered and complex, Barnhill's story brings a modern feel to age-old fairy tale tropes.--Publishers Weekly
Barnhill inverts common fairy-tale notions...[and creates] the most inventive rendition of architecture since J.K. Rowling conjured Hogwarts....Poetic.--The New York Times Book Review
Storytelling plays a key role in the book, intriguingly blurring the line between what is real and what is imaginary....Triumphant.--The Horn Book
Wonderful read-aloud potential...with a likable hero and heroine, a well-paced plot, and a daunting villain.--Booklist

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