Beginning her writing and publishing career at the precocious age of sixteen, British author Susan Price has created a body of work of several dozen titles in fantasy, science fiction, and horror. While collections of macabre, ghost, and folk tales, fantasy novels, and realistic, gritty stories are Price's mainstay, her retellings of traditional tales and her own original stories also result in strong and unique collections for young readers. The imaginary worlds found in Price's fantasy novels draw on traditional writings while offering new and imaginative settings for her characters to inhabit. And in her realistic and historical novels, Price often draws on her own working-class background to achieve authenticity. The winner of England's prestigious Carnegie Medal and of the Guardian Prize, Price has enticed readers young and old into her fabulous lands of invention, from her first novel, The Devil's Piper, to such fantasy-filled epics as the...