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Eli Brown is a Yaddo fellow with an MFA in creative writing from Mills College. His acclaimed adult novel, Cinnamon and Gunpowder, was a finalist for the California Book Prize, a San Francisco Public Library One-City One-Book selection, and an NPR Book Review Staff Pick. This is Eli's debut children's novel. He lives in California. Jacket illustration by the American artist Teagan White. Interior illustrations by Karin Rytter, including specially commissioned linocuts of the Oddities themselves. Karin is a Scandinavian printmaker and illustrator living in Denmark.
A thrillingly original fusion of adventure, magic, and epic alternative history. -- Jonathan Stroud * Jonathan Stroud * Written with insouciant charm ... eccentric adventure that is true to its name. -- Wall Street Journal * Wall Street Journal * Imaginative fantasy adventure ... packed with magical items, full of unexpected twists. -- School Library Journal * School Library Journal * Oddity is fantastically imagined, expertly written, and beautifully illustrated with black and white drawings. It is an adventure that draws us in, just as Clover is drawn to her Oddities. We are intrigued, we want to turn the page, to know more, to experience more, to be taken on the adventure too. A thrilling and highly original story infused with the magical power of excellent writing Clover Elkin's story will be one you will find it hard to leave behind. * Armadillo * These characters, and the grim villains who threaten her, including gothic creatures that are part animal, part crockery, are vividly realised, and we invest emotionally in this tale in all its strange complexity. * The Sunday Times *
