Water Paperback by Robin McKinley

Product Details

• Publisher: Firebird (2004-10-21)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 304 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780142402443
• Item Weight: 243.81 grams
• Dimensions: 19.56 x 12.7 x 2.03 cm

A WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST • In a realm where magical creatures dwell, the waters hold secrets that transcend imagination in this collection of seven extraordinary short stories.

“These creative interpretations brim with suspenseful, chilling and wonderfully supernatural scenes.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Mesmerizing stories . . . A bountiful collection for fantasy lovers.”—Booklist, starred review

What magical beings inhabit Earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of the Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world.

Here are seven tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson. Vividly imagined and written, they transform the simple element of water into something very powerful indeed

About the Author

Robin McKinley has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown and a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword. Her other books include Sunshine; the New York Times bestseller Spindle's End; two novel-length retellings of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and Rose Daughter; and a retelling of the Robin Hood legend, The Outlaws of Sherwood. She lives with her husband, the English writer Peter Dickinson.


In 1927, Peter Dickinson was born in Africa, within earshot of Victoria Falls. When he was seven, his family moved to England, where he graduated from Eton and later Cambridge. After working on the editorial staff of the humor magazine Punch for seventeen years, Peter finally started on his career as a writer, which he knew he was meant for since he was five years old.
His first book was published in 1968, and since then he has written almost fifty novels, for adults and young readers. His children's books have won great acclaim here as well as in Great Britain, where he has received both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. Peter lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife, Newbery Medalist Robin McKinley.