The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
core novel 2011 Fairyland
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.95 (41,982 ratings, collected 2026-09-15) |
| Page count | 247 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250010193 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making opens the series with twelve-year-old September, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her father away fighting in Europe and her mother working long hours in an aircraft factory. She is whisked away by the mysterious Green Wind astride a flying Leopard to the shores of Fairyland, where a coalition of witches recruits her to retrieve a magical spoon stolen by the Marquess, Fairyland's young and tyrannical ruler. Along her journey September gains unusual companions, including A-Through-L, a Wyverary who considers himself part wyvern and part library, and Saturday, a shy young marid, and together they face a series of strange dangers and wondrous encounters across Fairyland's many regions, as September is drawn deeper into the Marquess's schemes and begins to push back against the darker agenda underlying the Marquess's rule.
Where it sits
- Universe: Fairyland
- Series: The Fairyland Series core; position 1 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Awards (verified)
- Andre Norton Award (Best Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book), 2009: won; Won by the original 2009 self-published serialized version of book 1, not the 2011 Feiwel & Friends print edition; SFWA's own award-year convention names the award by eligibility year, with the ceremony held in 2010.
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (Children's Literature), 2012: finalist
Notes
- From the series record (The Fairyland Series): The 5-novel Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan) core sequence, 2011-2016.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Fairyland Series: position 1 of 5: next The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (2012)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Circumnavigated_Fairyland_in_a_Ship_of_Her_Own_Making
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairyland_(series)
- The Nebula Awards (SFWA): Andre Norton Award winners list
- The Mythopoeic Society -- 2012 Mythopoeic Awards
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