Advance praise for

The Flight of Swans

“Taking one of the loveliest of the Grimm canon, tale #49, ‘The Six Swans’ (one of my favorites), Sarah McGuire has grounded it with not just one strong young woman but three against a verago who could best Malificent at her evil games. McGuire has the right balance of heroics, poetics, and pratfalls. But it is the long center of the tale, where Ryn—sister to the swans—has to be silent for six long years else her brothers will die—that is simply a tour de force where in other, less sure hands, it would certainly have been a tour de farce. Brava performance!”

—Jane Yolen

“The Flight of Swans whisked me into a medieval world where magic seeps from forests and evil lurks in the most unexpected places. As a fanatic of all things Grimm, I loved how this story wove a fresh take on the classic tale of ‘The Six Swans,’ showing the power that a determined and courageous girl can have. McGuire’s spellbinding writing will embark you on a grand adventure through enchanted forests, far-away lakes, dark caves, and ruined fortresses. (Just be wary of nettles, and keep a stash of cloves close at hand.)”

—Christina Farley, author of the Gilded series and The Princess and the Page