Splendors and Glooms Audiobook

Quotes

• “Schlitz skillfully manages multiple narratives as the story makes its complex way forward, creating scenes of warmth and humor along with those of drama and horror…Filled with heart-pounding and heart-rending moments, this delicious, glorious novel is the work of a master of children’s literature.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Few books can be called both delightful and eerie - this novel is one. Utterly transporting.”

  — Rebecca Stead, Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me

• “Newbery Medalist Schlitz delivers many pleasures—fully dimensional children, period details so ripe one can nearly smell them, and droll humor that leavens a few scenes of true horror. A highly original tale about children caught in a harrowing world of magic and misdeeds.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “A brooding Dickensian novel with a touch of fantasy and a glimmer of hope…Vividly portrayed and complex, the characters are well defined individuals whose separate strands of story are colorful and compelling. Schlitz weaves them into an intricate tapestry that is as mysterious and timeless as a fairytale.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “The book builds slowly and ends stunningly.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “A superb gothic novel…Vivid and strange, this latest work by Ms. Schlitz—a Newbery Medal-winner—is, like a marionette show that the orphans see one night, a spectacle sharp-edged, exquisite, and eerily alive.”

  — Wall Street Journal