Oct 8, 2024 · M.T. Anderson’s newest fantasy novel is “Elf Dog and Owl Head”. It follows a family stuck at home during a global pandemic. The children are attending online school and getting on each other’s nerves, while the parents are struggling with job retention and money issues.

Apr 11, 2023 · Graced with evocative black-and-white illustrations by Junyi Wu, Elf Dog and Owl Head is heartfelt and exhilarating, wry and poignant, seamlessly merging the fantastic and the familiar in a tale both timely and timeless. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

Apr 11, 2023 · With this mysterious Elphinore as guide, he’ll glimpse ancient secrets folded all but invisibly into the forest. Each day the dog leads Clay down paths he never knew existed, deeper into the unknown. But they aren’t alone in their surreal adventures.

Elf Dog and Owl Head. Written by M. T. Anderson. Illustrated by Junyi Wu. Ages: 8+ | 240 Pages. Publisher: Candlewick Press (2023) | ISBN: 978-1536222814

Elf Dog and Owl Head is a heart-filled, magic-steeped tale of getting through a pandemic that’s very like Covid in the early 2020s. The narrative by M.T. Anderson and black-and-white illustrations by Junyi Wu are evocative and thrilling, as an elf dog finds herself in our world and is taken in by a family whose members are really getting on ...

Apr 20, 2023 · ELF DOG AND OWL HEAD opens as the royal elven hunt of the People Under the Mountain and their jewel-collared dogs breaks through to the human world in pursuit of a wily blue wyrm (a dragon-like creature) that has fled there and escaped (though not before ensuring the safety of her children).

From the moment the elegant little dog with the ornate collar appears like an apparition among the trees, Clay sees something uncanny in her. With this mysterious Elphinore as guide, he’ll...

His new novel, “Elf Dog & Owl Head," is a kind of inverted Narnia story: Instead of children stumbling on a portal to a magical world, a dog scampers out of a magical world and into our own. . . .