2006-10 (collected 2010) / Ebook / 238 pages / Australia
*****
Variably dark, consistently enchanting fairy tales from the de facto bard laureate. It may be a while before I can share these bedtime stories.
Faves: 'The Shadow Tree,' 'A Porcelain Soul,' 'Lavender and Lychgates'
2011-14 (collected 2014) / Ebook / 278 pages / Australia
****
Dark fantasy becomes outright horror in the Sourdough prequel scrapbook, occasionally overly infatuated with its own lore.
Faves: 'The Coffin-Maker's Daughter,' 'The Night Stair,' 'The Bitterwood Bible'
1885 / Audiobook / 109 pages / USA
**
Original fairy tales and crap verse with old-timey morals and some satisfying strangeness.
Faves: 'The Skillful Huntsman,' 'Clever Peter and the Two Bottles,' 'Hans Hecklemann's Luck'
2009-10 (collected 2010) / Ecomics / 128 pages / Canada
**
Dystopian Farthing Wood, with guns. I'd planned to read the whole story, but couldn't really be bothered.
2001 (revised 2005) / Paperback / 64 pages / UK
**
Completing a 4 for £1 offer with something potentially useful for lack of worthwhile frivolity, but it's too advanced for me, let alone a preschooler.
