21. Things Mean A Lot: "Beauty" By Robin McKinley This is, no doubt, Beauty and the Beast, a story we all know, but robin mckinley made the story refreshing – she made it her own. She stretched the tale in http://thingsmeanalot.blogspot.com/2007/12/beauty-by-robin-mckinley.html

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22. SS > SF > Book Reviews > Robin McKinley Twenty years ago, robin mckinley presented us with Beauty, a retelling of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. Now she has given us another one. http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/books/m/mckinley.htm

home SF book reviews Novels/collections ... Short fiction Robin McKinley Google Alta Vista Robin McKinley Novels/Collections Beauty The Door in the Hedge Damar The Hero and the Crown The Blue Sword The Outlaws of Sherwood Deerskin ... Water With Peter Dickinson Sunshine Edited anthologies Imaginary Lands Short works "The Hunting of the Hind". 1981. In The Door in the Hedge "The Twelve Dancing Princesses". 1981. In The Door in the Hedge "The Princess and the Frog". 1981. In The Door in the Hedge "The Stolen Princess". 1981. In The Door in the Hedge "The Healer". 1982. In A Knot in the Grain "The Stagman". 1984. In A Knot in the Grain "Touk's House". 1985. In A Knot in the Grain "The Stone Fey". 1985. In Imaginary Lands "A Knot in the Grain". 1994. In A Knot in the Grain "Buttercups". 1994. In A Knot in the Grain "Water Horse". 2002. In Water "The Sea-King's Son". 2002. In Water "A Pool in the Desert". 2002. In Water Novels/Collections : reviews Robin McKinley. Beauty Review: The classic fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast , retold in Robin McKinley's charming style. McKinley gives an interesting twist on many of the story's features. For example: 'Beauty' is the bookish protagonist's childhood nickname, she is actually rather plain, and her real name is Honour. [When I first read the story, 20 years ago, the name Honour had fewer resonances for me

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SYM=GetSymbol('BIO'); my cart home authors books ... Author Web Site Robin McKinley Robin McKinley has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown and a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword . Her other books include Sunshine ; the New York Times bestseller Spindle's End ; two novel-length retellings of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast Beauty and Rose Daughter ; and a retelling of the Robin Hood legend, The Outlaws of Sherwood . She lives with her husband, the English writer Peter Dickinson. Check out Robin McKinley's blog Robin McKinley is the Newbery Award-winning author of The Blue Sword The Hero and the Crown , and a number of other fantasy novels and short story collections. She launched onto the scene with her first book, , and now in her new book, Rose Daughter , she returns to this classic fairy tale with a new interpretation. Q : You've had a large amount of success with your books, developing a large fan base and even some sites on the internet that are dedicated to you. How does this affect your perception of your writing? Is it a mixed blessing? MCKINLEY : I do answer almost all the letters my agent and publishers forward to me (except the actively abusive ones which fortunately are very rare), but I avoid being dismayed by the conversations among readers at my web site by never visiting it. I don't know for a fact that it (I hope it's only an it, and not a they) still exists.

25. Sandstorm Reviews: Dragonhaven - Robin McKinley Dragonhaven robin mckinley. From Harry Potter with his Norwegian Ridgeback, to the recent successes of Dragonology and the Temeraire series, http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com/2007/10/dragonhaven-robin-mckinley.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=29062984"); Sandstorm Reviews SF, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, History, etc, etc, etc..... And some Terry Goodkind parodies too Friday, October 19, 2007 Dragonhaven - Robin McKinley From Harry Potter with his Norwegian Ridgeback, to the recent successes of Dragonology and the Temeraire series, the idea of dragons in the real world is a hot topic right now. The Young Adult novel Dragonhaven takes as its theme the concept of dragons as an endangered species, killed off by poachers in most parts of the world and only flourishing in an isolated sanctuary in the American wilderness. Our hero is Jake, a teenage boy who has spent his entire life on the reserve; while exploring a remote region of the park, he stumbles across a sight that could mean the sanctuary's closure and the end of all dragonkind - a dying mother dragon, and the remains of the poacher she has killed... and the mother's last surviving infant. The story then follows Jake's tribulations as he attempts to keep this dragonet alive and hidden from the authorities. The "hidden" part hinges on the book's weakest contrivance, the idea that keeping a dragon alive is the world's greatest criminal offence. This is unlikely to bother the book's target audience of teenagers, who can probably believe in any insanity committed by grown-up lawmakers, but to me it never stopped screaming "IMPROBABLE PLOT DEVICE" in big flashing letters. As I say, not necessarily a mark against the book (when I was 13 I loved the book

26. Robin McKinley, Deerskin In robin mckinley s author s note, she explains that Deerskin is based on a fairy tale by 17th century French writer Charles Perrault. http://www.rambles.net/mckinley_deerskin.html

Robin McKinley, Deerskin (Ace, 1993) This is one seriously dysfunctional family. In Robin McKinley"s author's note, she explains that Deerskin is based on a fairy tale by 17th century French writer Charles Perrault. His "Donkeyskin" is frequently excluded from anthologies or is sanitized by modern writers because of its horrific subject matter incestuous rape. This awareness of atrocities to follow makes the childhood of Princess Lissla Lissar even more disturbing. As the only child of "the most beautiful woman in seven kingdoms" and the brash young prince who wins her by retrieving an unfallen leaf from the tree of joy and an unfallen apple from the tree of sorrow, Lissar is all but ignored because of her parents' obsessive affection for each other. The couple is adored by all their subjects until this exquisite queen falls ill. On her deathbed, she exacts from her distraught husband a promise to remarry only a woman who equals the dying queen's radiant beauty. Unfortunately, now 17 years old, Lissar is just such a beauty, blossoming in the image of her mother with glossy black hair highlighted by hidden red fires. All too soon her father, with all the rights of a king, declares his intention to marry her. At this dark and threatening point in the story, the first hints of mysticism appear. The obsessive king's advisors are repulsed by his proposition to marry his own daughter, but - rather than attempt to rescue the young girl they assume that Lissar must have cast a spell on her father to cause this insanity.

27. Robin McKinley -- Interviews In Sherwood Interview with robin mckinley, awardwinning author of The Outlaws of Sherwood. http://www.boldoutlaw.com/robint/mckinley1.html

Interviews in Sherwood Most Recent Interview All Interviews Novelists and Short Story Writers ... Officials from Robin Hood Country Featured Interviews Richard Carpenter Creator of Robin of Sherwood Mark Ryan ... Rymes of Robyn Hood Part of Robin Hood Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood Main Sections Main Page A Beginner's Guide Robin Hood Tales Wolfshead Through the Ages ... Pook's Hill Information Site Map How to use this site For Students For Teachers ... Search This Site About the Author My Biography Send me an e-mail Cover art is used without permission for the purpose of criticism and review. ROBIN McKINLEY Conducted and transcribed by Allen W. Wright Robin McKinley has written several critically-acclaimed fantasy novels, among the best known are The Blue Sword , The Hero and the Crown (1985 a Newbery award-winner), Rose Daughter (1988) and Spindle's End (2000). Her Robin Hood novel, The Outlaws of Sherwood was published as a hardcover by Greenwillow Books in 1988 and as an Ace Books paperback in 1989. Born into an American military family, Ms. McKinley now lives in England with her husband, fellow author Peter Dickinson. Robin McKinley's official website is

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29. Robin McKinley From HarperCollins Publishers robin mckinley s other books include the Newbery Awardwinning The Hero and the Crown; Newbery Honor Book The Blue Sword; Sunshine; Spindle s End; http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/12469/Robin_McKinley/index.aspx

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30. Robin McKinley Author robin mckinley is known both for her retelling of classic fairytales and for original stories with a fairytale feel. Although she also writes short http://www.nndb.com/people/632/000038518/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Robin McKinley AKA Jennifer Robin Carolyn McKinley Born: 16-Nov Birthplace: Warren, OH Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Hero and the Crown Author Robin McKinley is known both for her retelling of classic fairytales and for original stories with a fairytale feel. Although she also writes short fiction she is best loved for her novels, including Beauty The Blue Sword Deerskin , and Rose Daughter . An author for teens as well as adults, McKinley won the 1985 Newbery Medal for her young adult novel The Hero and the Crown ; another young adult novel, Blue Sword , was named a Newbery Honor Book in 1983. Beauty was a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age pick for 1980, 1981, and 1982. McKinley's work has also extended into children's picture books with My Father is in the Navy Rowan Black Beauty , and Tales from the Jungle Book The daughter of a Navy serviceman, McKinley traveled a great deal throughout her childhood, coming to associate each book she voraciously read with the state or country she lived in while reading it. To this day she remembers Japan when she thinks of

31. Bookends: The Hero And The Crown By Robin McKinley I haven t read any of robin mckinley s work before. (I ve already established I m a little beyond in some areas of my reading.) Yet with a name like hers, http://library.coloradocollege.edu/bookends/archives/2007/04/the_hero_and_th.htm

@import "http://library.coloradocollege.edu/bookends//styles-site.css"; Bookends Book reviews from the Colorado College Library Archive for Review of The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley Reviewed by McKinley Sielaff on April 02, 2007 Genre: Award Winners Science Fiction/Fantasy Young Adult Be forewarned: our copy doesn't have such a colorful book cover; it's sort of a mossy-green with off-white binding. I grew up reading lots of stories with male heroes so it's lovely to run across strong female characters with interesting adventures. And Aerin fits the bill. Her mother died at her birth and since then Aerin has never fit in half believing rumors that her mother was a witch from the north who enchanted her father the king. Now as a teen not fitting in at court, she befriends her father's ex-war horse, the lame Talat, who has been put out to pasture. Yet this is no a typical girl and her horse story. Instead Aerin develops a fire proof cream that enables her and Talat to challenge the little dragons that cause much havoc to the countryside and villages. With only a few scrapes and minor burns to show for her effort, Aerin is nicknamed Dragon-killer. It is only when she has to face one of the ancient dragons that Aerin meets her match. In doing so, she finds out who her mother was and what her fate is to be. Back at work, I did a little web surfing and found that according to this website 'Hero' was inspired by a scene in Tolkien's The Return of the King (see

32. Veronica's Book Blog: Robin McKinley robin mckinley Dragonhaven. I have loved mckinley s work for years, and was excited to read her new novel. I waited eagerly all summer, and finished the http://veronicasbook.blogspot.com/2007/10/robin-mckinley-dragonhaven.html

Dragonhaven skip to main skip to sidebar Veronica's Book Blog Friday, October 26, 2007 Robin McKinley Dragonhaven I have loved McKinley's work for years, and was excited to read her new novel. I waited eagerly all summer, and finished the book in three days when it finally came out. Dragonhaven is the story of an adolescent boy who lives in North America's last dragon preserve. In the world of the novel, dragons are real but elusive, and interfering with them in any way is illegal. During his first overnight hike in the park, Jake Mendoza finds a mother dragon killed during birth by a poacher, and he rescues one of the baby dragons. In order to avoid criminal prosecution and the possible closing of the park, he must raise the dragon secretly. In many ways, this is McKinley's most daring novel. Like her vampire tale Sunshine , it is told in a rambling first-person narration, but Sunshine's narrator was a determined, experienced and likable adult woman. The narrator of Dragonhaven is an uncertain and unfocused fifteen-year-old boy. The story is not really about the dragon, the story is about Jake. His blindnesses and self-involvement, his resentments and passions form the narrative. We cannot see any of the events of the book except through his eyes. His voice is authentic, but it is authentically adolescent, leaving the reader to decide if they can actually enjoy a 300 page monologue from a teenage boy. Not everyone can.

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35. McKinley, Robin robin mckinley s Mailing address and ordering information. Describes robin mckinley in light of her Newbery Award and the publishing of new books. http://english.byu.edu/novelinks/Authors/McKinley.htm

Home Index of Authors Index of Novels Reading Resources Authors Robin McKinley Author Information In Her Own Words Robin McKinley "In Her Own Words." http://www.sff.net/people/robin-mckinley/ (October 25, 2000) A brief and friendly autobiography by the author. Q and A Robin McKinley "c." http://www.sff.net/people/robin-mckinley/ (October 25, 2000) The author answers common questions about her personal life and her writing habits. Mailing Address Mailing Address. http://www.sff.net/people/robin-mckinley/ (October 25, 2000) Robin McKinley's Mailing address and ordering information. Robin McKinley Biography Robin McKinley Biography http://pfb.net/~damien/mckinley/ (October 25, 2000) A brief online biography detailing the author's literary works and educational accomplishments. Robin McKinley Windling, Terri and Mark Alan Arnold. "Robin McKinley." The Horn Book Magazine. v61 n4. July-August 1985. 406-409. Describes Robin McKinley in light of her Newbery Award and the publishing of new books.

36. Robin McKinley Teacher Resource File Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center robin mckinley page. For other children s authors, see Children s Authors and Illustrators. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/mckinley.htm

Robin McKinley Teacher Resource File Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Robin McKinley page. For other children's authors, see Children's Authors and Illustrators . The ISLMC is a meta-site for librarians, teachers, parents and students. You can search this site, use an index or a sitemap . Be sure to visit your school or public library to find books by your favorite authors. Biography Lesson Plans Criticism Biography Robin McKinley Home Page Robin McKinley Fan Page Letters, biographical information, book reviews Robin McKinley Brief biography from Penguin Putnam Robin McKinley. ERIC Resources Links, ERIC citations; from ERIC [Back to Top] Lesson Plans The Hero and the Crown Book talk, author study, classroom connections, list of related books; from Ernie Bond's class, Salisbury State [Back to Top] Criticism True Blue: Robin McKinley Brief discussion of her writing style from BCCB [Back to Top] Return to: Children's Literature/Elementary Resources Site administrator: Inez Ramsey , Professor Emeritus James Madison University E-mail: ramseyil@jmu.edu

37. Robin McKinley: Sunshine robin mckinley isn t supposed to write about vampires. robin mckinley is supposed to write comfort books, the kind you read to pieces and keep under the bed http://www.epiphyte.net/SF/sunshine.html

Epiphyte Book Review up to review index Sunshine by Robin McKinley Robin McKinley isn't supposed to write about vampires. Robin McKinley is supposed to write comfort books, the kind you read to pieces and keep under the bed for when you're sick. Even the darkest material in Deerskin is mixed with fuzzy puppies and adoring dogs. So it's surprising that with her latest novel, Sunshine , McKinley has jumped into the vampire bucket with Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, and Tanya Huff. Rae Seddon, known to her friends and family as Sunshine, isn't supposed to deal with vampires. Rae is supposed to bake comfort food: cinammon rolls as big as your head, and cherry tarts, and Bitter Chocolate Death. She is not supposed to be kidnapped away from her big, noisy family; she's not supposed to escape; and she's especially not supposed to become prison buddies with one of the vampires. After an ominous opening, the reader has to wade through quite a bit of exposition to find out what horrible thing has happened to Rae. The story gradually reveals how different Sunshine's world is from ours. Vampires are quietly taking over her world; demons hide among the human population; the Voodoo Wars have decimated the human population and scarred the landscape. Human laws and technology have evolved to cope. Sunshine has a stash of trashy vampire novels with titles like "Sordid Enchantments", "Altar of Darkness", and "Immortal Death", but it's a capital crime to write about sexual relations between a vampire and a human. Christian symbology is surprisingly absent, but characters do make Star Trek references.

38. Random House : Author Details For Robin Mckinley Books by robin mckinley are published by Random House the biggest selling book publisher in the UK. http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorID=104477

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40. McKinley, Robin --  Britannica Student Encyclopaedia mckinley, robin (born 1952), US author. robin mckinley introduced new audiences to timeless tales through her adaptations of classic children s literature, http://student.britannica.com/ebi/article-9312425

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