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 | There's No Such Thing by Jeanette Cottrell | Reviewed by Katherine Maria Scott | |
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| Publisher: Wings ePress, Inc.
http://www.wings-press.com/ ISBN: 1590888200 (trade paper), 1590882091 (e-book) Genre: Children/Young Adult Subgenre: Young Adult, fantasy Release date: 2003 Format: Paperback Pages: 165 Price: $13.95, $7.50 | |||
| There's No Such Thing by Jeanette Cottrell is an excellent book. Having read dozens of new fantasy novels on the market, it's a joy to find a refreshing approach to the genre. This young adult fantasy novel features a young dragon, Gina, who wakes up underneath a tree stump instead of in her bed. Initially assuming her older brother was playing yet another prank and had somehow taken her out of her bed and left her in the woods, she meets what she believes is an elf.
She soon discovers his name is Jay and he's not an elf, but a wisky wasky, a creature whose purpose in life is to play pranks on humans and convince them he exists. Jay promptly tells Gina that he came into existence a few weeks before and only has a few weeks to convince enough people he exists or he will fade away into oblivion. Ironically, he must first convince Gina that people really exist. Where she comes from, people are characters in fables told by the elders and parents. Now she finds herself in a world where dragons are not supposed to exist and no one has even heard of a wisky wasky. This tale is riddled with amusing anecdotes involving the two in their quest to prove Jay's existence. Oddly enough, initially they find that the people most willing to believe are people who have a need for attention from others. Ms. Cottrell has written a fine work that deals with issues deeper than the actual quest, such as that every person adds value to society and that the elderly have a contribution the young should learn to appreciate. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to more adventures with Gina the dragon. | |||
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