Sonderbooks     Book Reviews by Sondra Eklund

Buy from Amazon.com

Rate this Book

Sonderbooks 65
    Previous Book
    Next Book


Nonfiction
Fiction
Young Adult Fiction
    Fantasy
        Previous Book
        Next Book

Children's Nonfiction
Children's Fiction
Picture Books

2005 Stand-outs
2004 Stand-outs
2003 Stand-outs
    Previous Book
    Next Book

2002 Stand-outs
2001 Stand-outs

Five-Star Books
Four-Star Books
    Previous Book
    Next Book

Old Favorites
Back Issues
List of Reviews by Title
List of Reviews by Author

Why Read?
Children and Books
Links For Book Lovers

About Me
Contact Me
Subscribe
Make a Donation

I don't review books I don't like!

*****= An all-time favorite
****  = Outstanding
***    = Above average
**      = Enjoyable
*        = Good, with reservations

cover

****The Changeling Sea

by Patricia A. McKillip

Reviewed October 20, 2003.
Firebird (Penguin Putnam), New York, 1988.  137 pages.
A Sonderbooks’ Stand-out of 2003:  #3, Young Adult Fantasy

Here’s a beautiful and deeply satisfying fantasy story.  I read this on the train to Bremen, and it helped make the trip a wonderful journey.

Peri hates the sea.  It took her father, and that took her mother’s heart.  So she decides to use the magic she learned from an old woman to hex the sea.

After her hex, strange things begin to happen.  She meets the king’s son and sees that his heart is also lost to the sea.  A sea dragon appears and the townsfolk covet its long, thick golden chain.  They call a magician to unlock the chain so they can get its treasure.  After that, Peri learns that the sea dragon was more than he appeared, and she can help to set things right.

This book will capture your imagination and pull you into a world of once upon a time.

Reviews of other books by Patricia McKillip:
Solstice Wood
Kingfisher

Copyright © 2003 Sondra Eklund.  All rights reserved.

-top of page-