May 19
Happy book birthday to this week’s new releases! 📚
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Happy book birthday to this week’s new releases! 📚
I'm excited to celebrate the publication of Katherine Link's magical book The Dragon Sonnets! This has been a project many years in the making, and I'm so grateful to have been a part of it.
The book is available for purchase here:
https://www.thedragonsonnets.com/product-page
As an added bonus, I shared a behind-the-scenes look at painting the cover art on my blog:
http://kakleckyillustration.com/.../21/dragon-sonnets-cover
TALE OF THE FLYING FOREST comes out two weeks from today! Written by the incredibly talented R.M. Romero and published by Little, Brown Young Readers, this beautiful middle grade fairytale retelling is for anyone who ever wanted to escape into another world. This was my first-ever full book illustration deal (cover art plus 40 interior black-and-white illustrations) and I was honoured to be a part of it :)
Travel Destination: Pakistan
Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed
Naila's conservative immigrant parents have always said the same thing: She may choose what to study, how to wear her hair, and what to be when she grows up-but they will choose her husband but when Naila falls in love with a boy Saif, her parents are livid and plan a vacation back to their homeland so Naila can reconnect with her roots.
However plans change and this vacation quickly turns to a nightmare when her parents find her a husband, Naila is running out of time, has Naila's fate been written in the stars? Or can she still make her own destiny?
Nura and the Immortal Palace by M.T. Khan
Nura must spend her time Mica mining for extra cash to support her family, however there’s rumours of treasure that could not only change her life but her family’s.
Her plan backfires when the mines collapse and four kids, including her best friend, Faisal, are claimed dead. Nura refuses to believe it and shovels her way through the dirt hoping to find him. Instead, she finds herself at the entrance to a strange world of purple skies and pink seas—a portal to the opulent realm of jinn, inhabited by the trickster creatures from her mother’s cautionary tales.
Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam
1964. Karachi, Pakistan. Rozeena is running out of time. She'll lose her home—her parents' safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors of Partition—if her medical career doesn't take off soon. But success may come with an unexpected price. Meanwhile the interwoven lives of her childhood best friends—Haaris, Aalya, and Zohair—seem to be unraveling with each passing day. The once small and inconsequential differences between their families' social standing now threaten to divide them. Then one fateful night someone ends up dead and the life they once took for granted shatters.
The Women’s Courtyard by Khadija Mastur
Set in the 1940s with Partition looming, Aliya dreams of educating herself and venturing beyond the courtyard walls, however she surrounded by the petty squabbles of her household.
Aliya must endure many trials before she achieves her goals, though at what personal cost?
An Abundance of Wild Roses by Feryal Ali-Gauhar
In a land woven with myth, chained with tradition and afflicted by war and the march of progress, the spirits of the mountains keep a baleful eye on the struggles of the villagers who scrape a living from the bodies of their wildlife. As the elements turn on the village, can humanity find a way to co-exist with nature that doesn't destroy either of them?
Welcome, wizards and mages! If you loved Harry Potter as a child, here are 10 read-a-likes with queer, transgender, and characters of color. The vibes are: teens and tweens discovering they're the Chosen One of a prophecy, going to a secret magical academy, and fantastical worlds hidden just beneath our own 🏰🔮🪄
Welcome, wizards and mages! If you loved Harry Potter as a child, here are 10 read-a-likes with queer, transgender, and characters of color. The vibes are: teens and tweens discovering they're the Chosen One of a prophecy, going to a secret magical academy, and fantastical worlds hidden just beneath our own 🏰🔮🪄
Masterpost!
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Researching the ya market today got me thinking about my favourite mg series growing up, Dealing with Dragons. And while looking it up, trying to remember what it was called, I came across one of the covers I'd seen before. It rules.
Look at how expressive they both are. The frizzy hair, the mischeiveous look, the body language on the dragon, totally maintaining a non-human body shape yet carrying so much emotion. She has a Frappuccino for some reason. Perfect.
But then I came across a more modern cover
wtf is this
Re-reading The Black Reckoning and just imagining in my head the characters reactions during the first battle like:
The Dire Magnus seeing his crush show up: 🥰🥰😍😃😃😊😇
Rourke: the f—⁉️
Imps: um…. 😐
elves: 🤭
Screechers: uhh, should we…? screech…? yet…?
Emma, dying: 🫨🤔
Michael: 🙄🙄🙄
Dr Pym: 😏 *called it*