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Originally Posted by UntreedReads
Mine is a bit odd in that it's actually a children's book.
When I was in elementary school, I was OBSESSED with John Bellairs' A House With A Clock In Its Walls. It was a little creepy, had a short, fat kid as the hero (shades of myself) and was just so mysterious. The illustrations for the cover and for the few sprinkled throughout the book were done by Edward Gorey.
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Jay Hartman
Editor-In-Chief
Untreed Reads Publishing
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John Bellairs is simply wonderful. Another I'm fond of is _The Face in the Frost_.
I have an old friend who likes SF but does not like fantasy. He's also a major baseball fan. I loaned him _The Face in the Frost_. When he got to the sequence where the wizard's spell included "S is for Smead Jolley, the only major league player to make four errors off a single batted ball" he spluttered "Oh my God! Smead Jolley! You don't
know..." After finishing the book he concluded "I
still don't like fantasy! But I like John Bellairs!"
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Dennis