#greenwillow books

[meganwhalenturner]

I signed special orders @macs_backs and added a tiny mole god to the books people bought from my recommendation list on #smallbusinesssaturday. On the one hand, I’m excited that #summerinorcus sold out and had to be special ordered. On the other hand, geez did I have to work up my nerve to put my crummy drawing on something as beautiful as that book. Never doing that again. And Elizabeth? You got a particularly embarrassing version in LMB’s #Warrior’s Apprentice. Hope you’re happy.

#macsbacks #megan whalen turner #tqt #the queen's thief #greenwillow books

[graphicpolicy]

Weekly Preview! A graphic novel and lots of manga!

Weekly Preview! A graphic novel and lots of manga! See what's coming to GPTV! #comics #comicbooks #manga #graphicnovel

There are a lot of comics coming out every week to be covered. Check out some of what we’ll be reviewing and this is only the beginning! This week’s reviews include: Associate Professor Akira Takasukis Conjecture Vol. 2 (Yen Press) Banished From the Hero Party Vol. 6 (Yen Press) Beginning After the End Vol. 4 (Yen Press) Call the Name of Night Vol. 3 (Yen Press) Demon Sword Master of…

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#15 minutes before we really date #associate professor akira takatsukis conjecture #banished from the heros party #beginning after the end #call the name of night #comic books #Comics #dstlry #featured #graphic novel #graphic novels #greenwillow books #harriet tubman: demon slayer #higurashi when they cry gou anthology #honey lemon soda #i kept pressing the 100 million button and came out on top #ink girls #kiss the scars of the girls #lord hades ruthless marriage #manga #massive publishing #one more step come stand by my side #oshi no ko #rascal does not dream of logical witch #saint nope monster tamer passing through #scribbles #skybound #somna #sugar apple fairy #sunbeams in the sky

[smashpages]

Out this week: The Faint of Heart (Greenwillow Books, $18.99):

In a world where people have had their hearts removed to save themselves from anxiety and sadness, writer and artist Kerilynn Wilson presents the story of June, a girl who still has her heart and doesn’t want to become like everyone else. 

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

#the faint of heart #kerilynn wilson #graphic novels #new comic book day #ncbd #new comics day #new comics #can't wait for comics #out this week #this week's comics #greenwillow books #comics

[thebookbin]

Squad

Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Publisher: Greenwillow Books Genre: horror, young adult Year: 2021

It's spooky season, and we know what that means... time to read some scary shit! The only problem—I've been in a bit of a reading slump and I've got a lot going on right now, so I picked up this copy when it came through the book drop at the library and I had to give it a read.

This is a YA graphic novel, which I would describe as a teen revenge fantasy à la Jennifer's Body. Becca has just moved to a new school and she's desperate to fit in. When she gives a stranger a tampon in the bathroom, she is launched into a whole new life wherein she is initiated into a pack of man-eating werewolves. Except these werewolves are a pack of teenage girls.

The story is a lot darker than I'd expect, and honestly I thought it would be a lot better as an adult graphic novel rather than YA. In order to keep it YA they gloss over a lot of the horror elements, which almost makes it even more horror-y but unintentionally.

Spoiler When the pack alpha upsets the leader of another pack, they kill her and Becca and her girlfriend eat her heart out, literally so they can stop being werewolves. Then Becca and her girlfriend go on a date to homecoming 🤣 End Spoiler

I mean, I did like the themes of female rage, and I definitely appreciated how they only went after sleazy guys, but the fact that they couldn't confront some themes and plot elements because it was YA really took away from it for me.

Overall I think I'm a fan of this sapphic spooky read, I just wish it embraced itself in all its gory glory.

storygraph | bookshop.org | local houston

★★★★½ eat your heart out stars

#comic review #book review #squad #maggie takuda hall #greenwillow books #harper collins #comics #2021 #horror #sapphic #graphic novel #queer #good but not great #author of color #feminist #ya

[roesolo]

Not-so Happily Ever After? The Princess Protection Program is here for you

The Princess Protection Program, by Alex London, (Feb. 2024, Greenwillow Books), $18.99, ISBN: 9780063303874 Ages 8-12 Did you ever think about whether or not Sleeping Beauty really wanted to be kissed by some guy she never knew after being asleep for 100 years? Or if The Little Mermaid would have made a different choice if she’d know she was going to turn into foam at the end of her story?…

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#Alex London #fairy tales #flipped fairy tales #Greenwillow Books #princesses #The Princess Protection Program

[winningthesweepstakes]

Greymist Fair by Francesca Zappia

Greymist Fair by Francesca Zappia. Greenwillow Books, 2023. 9780063161696 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 Format: Hardcover Genre:  Horror, short stories What did you like about the book? Greymist Fair is well written and would be a great option for readers who like horror, fantasy, and short stories. In 8 individual stories, Zappia creates a creepy world that is…

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#Greenwillow Books

[esckeyes]

Sneak peek at "The Cartographers" by Amy Zhang, the author of "Falling Into Place" and "This Is Where The World Ends."

#amy zhang #the cartographers #falling into place #this is where the world ends #greenwillow books #epic reads #harpercollins #this agent supports the hcp union #book was scheduled year ago #booklr #books #young adult fiction

[jewishbookworld]

Where You've Got to Be by Caroline Gertler

Where You’ve Got to Be by Caroline Gertler

Feeling left behind by both her sister and her best friend, Nolie tries her best to belong but soon finds herself at a moral crossroads. Set in the bustle of New York City during the Jewish High Holy Days, Where You’ve Got to Be is an accessible story about identities and relationships—the ones you keep and ones you let go. Pitch-perfect for tween readers who love Rebecca Stead, Holly Goldberg…

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#Caroline Gertler #Greenwillow Books

[publishedtoday]

Katzenjammer - Francesca Zappia

Cat lives in her high school. She never leaves, and for a long time her school has provided her with everything she needs. But now things are changing. The hallways contract and expand along with the school’s breathing, and the showers in the bathroom run a bloody red. Cat’s best friend is slowly turning into cardboard, and instead of a face, Cat has a cat mask made of her own hardened flesh. Cat doesn’t remember why she is trapped in her school or why half of them—Cat included—are slowly transforming. Escaping has always been the one impossibility in her school’s upside-down world. But to save herself from the eventual self-destruction all the students face, Cat must find the way out. And to do that, she’ll have to remember what put her there in the first place.

tw: body horror/dismemberment, bullying, death, gaslighting, gore, hangings, homophobia, mentions of eating disorders, mass murder, murder, mutilation, school shooting, self-mutilation, vandalism, violence

#katzenjammer #francesca zappia #greenwillow books #june 28 2022

[spookshowninjakitty]

Gallant by V.E. Schwab

Gallant by V.E. Schwab

Gallant by V.E. Schwab Young Adult/Horror/Gothic 334 Pages Published by Greenwillow Books (1st March 2022) Purchase from | Booktopia | Fishpond AU*| Book Depository | Dymocks | QBD | Amazon AU | Amazon US | Amazon UK | My rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Olivia Prior is an orphan, she’s grown up in Merilance school for girls, she has no knowledge of her mother past the old, tattered journal she clings to and no…

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#2022 release #Amazon #atmospheric #Book #Book Depository #book review #Bookshelf #bookshops #Booktopia #Creepy #dymocks #Fishpond #Gallant #Ghosts #ghouls #gothic #Gothic Horror #Greenwillow Books #horror #paperback #Paranormal #QBD #reading #reading time #review #Supernatural #V.E. Schwab #YA #YA horror #young adult

[meganwhalenturner]

I decided it was time to do something about the stacks of author copies.

#botqt #megan whalen turner #hodderscape #greenwillow books #harpercollins children #the queens thief

[jessicaroux]

A fun book cover illustration for an amazing middle grade novel by Kaela Noel! Talking cats that wear clothes and read books, plus magic — truly a joy to read and work on. I have a few interior illustrations as well that I’ll share later on. It comes out in April from HarperKids Greenwillow Books✨ many thanks to my wonderful art director Paul Zakris, especially for choosing my favorite sketch.

#illustration #artists on tumblr #book cover #book jacket #middle grade #cats #jessica roux #jessicaroux

[dk-thrive]

Sifter

When our English teacher gave our first writing invitation of the year, Become a kitchen implement in 2 descriptive paragraphs, I did not think butcher knife or frying pan, I thought immediately of soft flour showering through the little holes of the sifter and the sifter's pleasing circular swishing sound, and wrote it down. Rhoda became a teaspoon, Roberto a funnel, Jim a muffin tin and Forrest a soup pot. We read our paragraphs out loud. Abby was a blender. Everyone laughed and acted giddy but the more we thought about it, we were all everything in the whole kitchen, drawers and drainers, singing teapot and grapefruit spoon with serrated edges, we were all the empty cup, the tray. This, said our teacher, is the beauty of metaphor. It opens doors. What I could not know then was how being a sifter would help me all year long. When bad days came I would close my eyes and feel them passing through the tiny holes. When good days came I would try to contain them gently the way flour remains in the sifter until you turn the handle. Time, time. I was a sweet sifter in time and no one ever knew.

— Naomi Shihab Nye, "Sifter." In "A Maze Me: Poems for Girls." (Greenwillow Books, May 26, 2015)

#Naomi Shihab Nye #poem #poetry #metaphor #sifter #flour

[ibrithir-was-here]

Another paperback pulp style cover, this time for the delightfully spooky retelling of the 12 Dancing Princesses, Heather Dixon Wallwork’s “Entwined”, which was published by Greenwillow Books in 2011. Its a gothic retelling with lots of good twists and turns.

I wanted to really e come the fever dream kind of quality pulp covers can have when they do fantasy and I think I pulled it off well!

(I promise I’m also working on commissions for all the lovely people who’ve paid for one, I just have no social life so all I do is draw when I’m not at work xD…or sometimes when I’m at work when it’s slow which is where I did most of this one 😅)

(Click for better quality)

#my art #book covers #book cover design #entwined #heather dixon #(she published most of her books before she got married) #the twelve dancing princesses #fairytales #fairytale retellings #pulp cover #fairytale books #book recs

[roesolo]

Funky Flamingos? But of course!

Flamingos are Pretty Funky: A (Not So) Serious Guide, by Abi Cushman, (June 2024, Greenwillow Books), $19.99, ISBN: 9780063234444 Ages 4-8 Abi Cushman has a companion book to Wombats are Pretty Weird (2023), and it’s all about flamingos. Friendly Joey the Snake is back as our guide through the world of flamingos, with more amusing commentary (we find out who he was named for this time). Cushman…

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#Abi Cushman #animals #Birds #flamingos #Flamingos are Pretty Funky: A Not-So Serious Book #Greenwillow Books #nature

[winningthesweepstakes]

The Faint of Heart by Kerilynn Wilson

The Faint of Heart by Kerilynn Wilson. Greenwillow Books, 2023. 9780063116214 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4.5 Format: Hardcover graphic novel Genre: Sci Fi What did you like about the book? A scientist in June’s time decided that people would be much more productive and less stressed if they were not ruled by their emotions, i.e. being happy, sad, angry, etc. She developed…

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#Greenwillow Books