What’s big and gray and loves to bake pies? The kindly ogress in “The Ogress and the Orphans,” a new fantasy novel by Kelly Barnhill. Barnhill nixed the human-eating brute of most fairy tales. Instead ...

Why are we so obsessed with dragons? It is only a matter of time in most fantasy novels before a parentless child on a hero’s journey runs toward or away from one to prove their mettle. Some dragons ...

In The Ogress and the Orphans, Kelly Barnhill’s first middle grade title since The Girl Who Drank the Moon, which won the 2017 Newbery Medal, the author writes a standalone fantasy that centers a once ...

Before fires claimed its spaces of books and learning, Stone-in-the-Glen was a “lovely town... famous for its trees,” its abundance, its close-knit community, and its ample library (where even the ...

Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when local government meetings descend into shouting matches and teachers and public servants face threats on the job, some writers for young readers ...

MINNEAPOLIS - It's standard to ask authors what their books are about, but when it comes to "The Girl Who Drank the Moon," Minneapolis author Kelly Barnhill is a little overwhelmed. At first, she just ...

Barnhill (The Mostly True Story of Jack) creates a splendid fantasy around a story’s power to change the world. Princess Violet deeply loves reading and telling tales of all sorts, even ones about ...

What can't be named can't be questioned in this new novel by Minneapolis writer Kelly Barnhill, which immerses readers in a post-World War II period of conformity and repression with a speculative ...

What’s big and gray and loves to bake pies? The kindly ogress in “The Ogress and the Orphans,” a new fantasy by Kelly Barnhill. Barnhill nixed the human-eating brute of most fairy tales. Instead she ...

"The Ogress and the Orphans" by Kelly Barnhill is the story about an ogress who is not who you might think she is. This is also a story about a family of orphans. There were too many children for one ...