Annal:1992 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie

• 1992 Mythopoeic-Children winner
• Score: 10.42

This is the story of Haroun, a 12-year-old boy whose father Rashid is the greatest storyteller in a city so sad that it has forgotten its name. When the gift of gab suddenly deserts Rashid, Haroun sets out on an adventure to rescue his print.

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher

Bruce Coville

• 1992 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
• Score: 6.42

If Howard Morton and Freddie the Frog Killer were trying to hold you down so that Mary Lou Hutton could kiss you, you might run as fast as Jeremy Thatcher did the day he stumbled into Mr. Elives’ Magic Shop.

And if you stumbled into that strange shop, you, too, might be asked to make a choice. What would you buy? The Chinese rings? The Skull of Truth? Or the dragon’s egg?

And if you did buy the dragon’s egg, what would you do when you found out you were supposed to hatch it?

Castle in the Air

Diana Wynne Jones

• 1992 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
• Score: 6.42

Abdullah was a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer. His father, who had been disappointed in him, had left him only enough money to open a modest booth in the Bazaar. When he was not selling carpets, Abdullah spent his time daydreaming. In his dreams he was not the son of his father, but the long-lost son of a prince. There was also a princess who had been betrothed to him at birth. He was content with his life and his daydreams until, one day, a stranger sold him a magic carpet.

In this stunning sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones…

Elsewhere

Will Shetterly

• 1992 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
• Score: 6.42

When Ron runs away, he ends up in Bordertown, a grim city that lies between the real world and the world of faerie, a place where elf and human gangs stalk the streets side by side, and where magic works better than technology. If the city doesn’t kill him, it just may teach him what it is to be human.

Song of the Gargoyle

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

• 1992 Mythopoeic-Children finalist
• Score: 6.42

A strange sound awakens thirteen-year-old Tymmon in the dead of night. In a blink of an eye his father, the court jester of Austerneve, is mysteriously kidnapped and the terrified boy must slip away secretly to avoid capture himself.

Hiding in the dreaded forest nearby, Tymmon is adopted by a huge, furry, dog-like creature—a gargoyle—who has the loyalty of a dog and the fearsome powers of an enchanted being.

Together, hungry, the two make their way to town, where Tymmon earns a living by playing his flute and learns to be happy. At least as happy as he can…