Kristin Cashore's Reading List

"I've got two: "Ship Fever," by Andrea Barrett, which I'm reading for the first time, and "Toning the Sweep," by Angela Johnson, which is a reread."

"I did recently talk up Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" and "The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau," which is a picture book by Jon Agee. Both of those books are full of tragic shenanigans and have perfect endings."

"I did recently talk up Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" and "The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau," which is a picture book by Jon Agee. Both of those books are full of tragic shenanigans and have perfect endings."

"That would be Jean Ingelow's odd little story "Mopsa the Fairy," which I read in one my favorite-ever classes, Victorian Children's Literature (with Dr. Kelly Hager, at Simmons College's Center for the Study of Children's Literature)."

""Orange Pear Apple Bear," by Emily Gravett, which is beautiful in its simplicity."

"And of course, "Where the Wild Things Are." I once watched my restless twin toddler nieces push book after book aside, then stop, transfixed, when their mother began to read them "Where the Wild Things Are.""

"I love good historical fiction — most recently, I loved a couple of stories in Karen Joy Fowler's "What I Didn't See" that revolved around the life of John Wilkes Booth."

"I'm hoping to find the time to reread Megan Whalen Turner's Attolia books."