The Child Thief

A Novel

by Brom

On Sale: 08/17/2010

Read a Sample

Enlarge Book Cover

The Child Thief

A Novel

by Brom

On Sale: 08/17/2010

Format:

Amazon Indigo

View More Retailers

Book Overview
Author Info

About the Book

The acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief—a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of Faerie. As Gregory Maguire did with his New York Times bestselling Wicked novels, Brom takes a classic children’s tale and turns it inside-out, painting a Neverland that, like Maguire’s Oz, is darker, richer, more complex than innocent world J.M. Barrie originally conceived. An ingeniously executed literary feat, illustrated with Brom’s sumptuous artwork, The Child Thief is contemporary fantasy at its finest—casting Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, even Captain Hook and his crew in a breathtaking new light.

Critical Praise

“Ancient magics combine with feral logic to culminate in Brom’s The Child Thief. A retelling of Peter Pan spanning America’s earliest, magically rich beginnings to today’s bare whispers of belief. Wickedly poetic, The Child Thief makes me want to believe.” — Kim Harrison

“Brom has always been an artist who gave us his nightmares fully realized, but with THE CHILD THIEF, he paints in words. A wonderfully nasty Peter Pan reboot that stands on its own as a dark, twisted adventure.” — Christopher Golden

“A gruesome and darkly fantastical twist on a classic tale. Brom injects pure horror into fantasy.” — Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Ironside and The Spiderwick Chronicles

“Beautiful and authentically dark.” — Sci-Fi

” [A] fascinating work of dark epic fantasy that blends elements of the Peter Pan story with characters from Celtic and Norse mythologies.” — Tulsa World