Catherynne M. Valente

"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century."—Time magazine, on the Fairyland seriesTwelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen …

The Grass-Cutting Sword is a novella by Catherynne M. Valente. It was published by Prime Books in 2006.

Here Monsters are hidden ...A lyrical anti-quest through a conscious maze without center, borders, or escape--a dark pilgrim's progress through a landscape of vicious Angels, plague houses, crocodile-prophets, tragic chess-sets, and the mind of an unraveling woman, driven on by the mocking guide who seeks to destroy …

Catherynne M. Valente enchanted readers with her spellbinding In the Night Garden. Now she continues to weave her storytelling magic in a new book of Orphan’s Tales—an epic of the fantastic and the exotic, the monstrous and mysterious, that will transport you far away from the everyday….Her name and origins are …

The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden is a book written by Catherynne M. Valente.