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Zelinsky bring exquisite life and adventure to this slyly funny and inventive picture book for fans of Christopher Denise’s \u003cem\u003eKnight Owl \u003c\/em\u003eand Corinna Luyken’s \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Mistakes\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery young artist has drawn or painted a still life scene. Perhaps it is a bowl of fruit, or a toy, or a vase of flowers, or a chair. The only rule is that a still life painting must stay \u003cem\u003estill\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut staying still is hard! Especially for a curious mouse and a hungry dragon and a no-nonsense princess. Will the artist notice that his still life painting is breaking all the rules?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning author Alex London and Caldecott Medal–winning artist Paul O. Zelinsky, \u003cem\u003eStill Life\u003c\/em\u003e is a funny, subversive, and clever picture book that brings a painting to wildly imaginative life. Readers will pore over all the silly and surprising details in the illustrations—which tell a story of daring rescues, dashing heroes, and found friends. With its inventive humor, \u003cem\u003eStill Life\u003c\/em\u003e is for readers of \u003cem\u003eBattle Bunny \u003c\/em\u003eand David Ezra Stein’s \u003cem\u003eInterrupting Chicken\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44583332413618,"sku":"9780063229556","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780063229556_a5a17ba4-58ed-4102-bf71-6c3069ed2c88.jpg?v=1786011084"},{"product_id":"9780063303881","title":"The Princess Protection Program","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A delightful tongue in cheek twist on fairy tales and the magic school genre. Mixing the modern with the magical, author Alex London skewers popular fairy-tale tropes with a sharp wit and a loving, lighthearted touch, telling an empowering story where princesses learn to be their own fairy godmothers.” —Soman Chainani, author of \u003cem\u003eThe School for Good and Evil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A slick, sly, and clever love letter to fairy tales. T\u003cem\u003ehe Princess Protection Program\u003c\/em\u003e is a celebration of changing the narrative to fit the person you are and not the person people want you to be. It's the fairy tale we need.”—Roshani Chokshi, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eAru Shah and the End of Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A clever and laugh-out-loud tale of friendship, magic, and princesses—and a prince—who learn to rewrite their own stories. Absolutely charming.” —Sarah Mlynowski, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of the Whatever After and Best Wishes series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fast-paced, fun, and whimsical read about defining your own destiny.” —Claribel A. Ortega, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of the Witchlings series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere can a princess hide if her Ever After isn’t all that Happy? Bestselling author Alex London turns classic fairy tales on their heads in this fast-paced, funny fantasy about embracing change and taking control of your own story. For fans of the School for Good and Evil and the Chronicles of Never After series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery fairy tale ends with its characters living happily ever after, right? A valiant prince quests long and hard to reach the castle where the sleeping princess lies. 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For fans of The School for Good and Evil and the Never Afters series.   Princess Rana loves her friends (all fellow fairy tale escapees), loves her school (the HEA, an academy for fairy tale royalty), and loves punk rock (the best music genre). But she does not love frogs . . . especially demanding frog princes who follow her home. Rana fled her story because of one frog prince in particular, and she has no plans of ever going back to that stuffy place full of rules. But then her frog prince shows up at the academy’s gate. And he’s not alone. Dozens of duplicate frog princes have followed him to the real world. Worse still, a shadowy monster is in hot pursuit, one that dissolves fairy tale characters into nothing, erasing their stories. To save everyone she cares about, Rana will have to do the one thing she vowed she'd never to do—return to her Once Upon Time.   Acclaimed and bestselling author Alex London weaves together several beloved fairy tales in this fast-paced, funny, and slyly subversive adventure about figuring out who you want to be. The daring escapes, sinister monsters, familiar friends, and surprise twists will keep even reluctant readers glued to the pages. The Princess Protection Program is for fans of the Never Afters and the Descendants series, The School for Good and Evil, and the Fairly True Tales series.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367751594357,"sku":"9780063303935","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780063303935_8eca4365-88c0-4f1c-ab44-38393d297ed6.jpg?v=1786011292"},{"product_id":"9780063353961","title":"Pull","description":"The true story of a boy, his dad, and a gun—and surviving in a country that doesn’t always allow you to exist in the middle. This powerful graphic memoir by the acclaimed author of Proxy and the illustrator of John Lewis’s Run is for readers of Hey Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka, Ducks by Kate Beaton, and Flamer by Mike Curato.   When he was fifteen, Alex London was keeping aWhen he was fifteen, Alex London was keeping a secret. He kept it from his friends, from his conservative prep school, and from his family. Especially his dad, who tried so hard to connect with him, even as Alex pulled away. They seemed to have so little in common. Until his dad gave him a shotgun. On the skeet shooting range, that gun brought him closer to his dad, closer to feeling like a man, and closer to the confidence of real excellence.  But it didn’t make him brave enough to stop hiding who he really was. And it didn’t stop him from fearing what would happen if he was found out. His gun offered another solution. One that was irreversible, irrevocable, and terrifying, just a trigger pull away. A trigger pull he couldn’t stop thinking about.  Pull is the memoir of acclaimed author Alex London, strikingly illustrated by comic artist L. Fury in an impactful two-color format. It is an (almost) coming out story, but it is also a story of surviving masculine culture in America, of our complicated relationship to guns and each other, and how a son and his father can forge a connection and learn to understand each other against all odds.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367755526517,"sku":"9780063353961","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780063353961.jpg?v=1792424731"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-alex-london.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}