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Meet Selma of the Rin-Run Royals, a clever little girl who is spoiled to the core. One day Selma stumbles upon a band of colorful marionettes, and gets more than she bargained for. The remarkable Squickerwonkers of the fabulous Squickershow are about to teach Selma that she'll not always get her way.
Evangeline Lilly is best known for her work as an actress, but her foremost passion has always been writing. This book is her first published work. Beautifully illustrated by Johnny Fraser-Allen, this eccentric and visually stunning cautionary tale will appeal to adults and children alike.
About the author
Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress who starred as Kate Austen in ABC's
Lost. Lilly is also known for her roles in the feature films
Afterwards, The Hurt Locker, and
Real Steel. Lilly appeared in
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and will appear in
The Hobbit: There and Back Again, the final film in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy.
Johnny Fraser-Allen is a senior sculptor and conceptual designer at WETA workshop where he has worked since his teens. His film credits include Andrew Adamson's
Narnia Chronicles, Stephen Spielberg's
Tintin, and Peter Jackson's
King Kong and
The Hobit trilogy.
Summary
Based on a poem that Lost and The Hobbit star, the author wrote when she was 14 years old, this story follows a girl who encounters the Squickerwonkers, a bizarre cast of characters who are each identified by their particular vice.
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"More Grimm than Disney, Lilly and Fraser-Allen are unafraid to challenge their young readers and offer up a cautionary tale that promises to delight those willing to take the journey." - Comics Online
"Mystery, misanthropy, and mischief combine in this delightfully dark cautionary tale, written in an absorbing limerick style." - Foreword Reviews
"The Squickerwonkers is a strange and wacky book but a fun one all the same. Lilly's set-up of the story definitely makes it seem as though we could potentially see more of the Squickerwonkers in later installments (which I, for one, will be looking forward to!)." - Mugglenet
"She's not underselling it: parts Brothers Grimm, Roald Dahl and Tim Burton. The Squickerwonkers lurks at the shadowy end of the kids-lit spectrum" - Total Film
"Evangeline Lilly's The Squickerwonkers is a creepy crawly delight." - Barnes & Noble Book Blog
"The Squickerwonkers is an amazing book." - Comic Vine
"Delightfully dark cautionary tale, written in an absorbing limerick style." -Foreword Reviews
"Aclever, creepy children's book." - Vulture
"The rare kind of kids' book that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike." - Movies.com
"The dark, alluring tale of a spoiled girl who's taken in by a band of eccentric marionettes." - USA Today
"[a] delightfully dark read, illustrated in at once unsettling and beautiful fashion by WETA designer Johnny Fraser-Allen" - Comics Alliance
"With Squickerwonkers, Lilly set out to write a book that both children and parents could enjoy - since parents will be the ones reading the book over and over. She has succeeded." - She Knows
"Thanks to consistently playing tough, independent, ass-kicking women, it's easy to imagine that Evangeline Lilly spends her down time climbing mountains or big-wave surfing, but the truth is she's actually a very gifted writer. She's written a truly delightful and sophisticated children's book called The Squickerwonkers, and the easiest way to pitch it is to say were it a movie, it'd be right at home alongside the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman." - Movies.com
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"More Grimm than Disney, Lilly and Fraser-Allen are unafraid to challenge their young readers and offer up a cautionary tale that promises to delight those willing to take the journey." - Comics Online
"Mystery, misanthropy, and mischief combine in this delightfully dark cautionary tale, written in an absorbing limerick style." - Foreword Reviews
" The Squickerwonkers is a strange and wacky book but a fun one all the same. Lilly's set-up of the story definitely makes it seem as though we could potentially see more of the Squickerwonkers in later installments (which I, for one, will be looking forward to!)." - Mugglenet
"She's not underselling it: parts Brothers Grimm, Roald Dahl and Tim Burton. The Squickerwonkers lurks at the shadowy end of the kids-lit spectrum" - Total Film
"Evangeline Lilly's The Squickerwonkers is a creepy crawly delight." - Barnes & Noble Book Blog
" The Squickerwonkers is an amazing book." - Comic Vine
"Delightfully dark cautionary tale, written in an absorbing limerick style." - Foreword Reviews
"A clever, creepy children's book." - Vulture
"The rare kind of kids' book that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike." - Movies.com
"The dark, alluring tale of a spoiled girl who's taken in by a band of eccentric marionettes." - USA Today
"[a] delightfully dark read, illustrated in at once unsettling and beautiful fashion by WETA designer Johnny Fraser-Allen" - Comics Alliance
"With Squickerwonkers, Lilly set out to write a book that both children and parents could enjoy - since parents will be the ones reading the book over and over. She has succeeded." - She Knows
"Thanks to consistently playing tough, independent, ass-kicking women, it's easy to imagine that Evangeline Lilly spends her down time climbing mountains or big-wave surfing, but the truth is she's actually a very gifted writer. She's written a truly delightful and sophisticated children's book called The Squickerwonkers, and the easiest way to pitch it is to say were it a movie, it'd be right at home alongside the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman." - Movies.com
