The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Fairyland: Book #1
- By: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrated by: Catherynne M. Valente
- Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Description
"This is a kind of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by way of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—it's the sort of book one doesn't want to end." —Publisher's Weekly, starred review
September is a girl who longs for adventure. When she is invited to Fairyland by a Green Wind and a Leopard, well, of course she accepts. (Mightn’t you?) But Fairyland is in turmoil, and it will take one twelve-year-old girl, a book-loving dragon, and a strange and almost human boy named Saturday to vanquish an evil Marquess and restore order.
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Fairyland Series

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
By: Catherynne M. Valente
Narrated by: Catherynne M. Valente
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is a kind of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by way of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—it's the sort of book one doesn't want to end." —Publisher's Weekly, starred review
September is a girl who longs for adventure. When she is invited to Fairyland by a Green Wind and a Leopard, well, of course she accepts. (Mightn’t you?) But Fairyland is in... Read more »
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
By: Catherynne M. Valente
Narrated by: S.J. Tucker
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
September has longed to return to Fairyland after her first adventure there. And when she finally does, she learns that its inhabitants have been losing their shadows — and their magic — to the world of Fairyland-Below. This world has a new ruler: Halloween, the Hollow Queen, who is September’s shadow. And Halloween has no intentions of giving... Read more »
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The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
By: Catherynne M. Valente
Narrated by: Heath Miller
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Golden Wind, he becomes a changeling - a human boy - in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland when seen through trollish eyes. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature and his changeling fate. But when he turns... Read more »
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The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
By: Catherynne M. Valente
Narrated by: Catherynne M. Valente
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
September misses Fairyland and her friends Ell, the Wyverary, and the boy Saturday. She longs to leave the routines of home and embark on a new adventure. Little does she know that this time, she will be spirited away to the moon, reunited with her friends, and find herself faced with saving Fairyland from a moon-Yeti with great and mysterious... Read more »
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