Catherynne Valente is a uniquely talented author. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is a rich, entertaining fairytale, at once wholly unique and yet comfortably familiar. 
 There is so much in this story that it will keep a reader entertained for a lifetime. It's a keeper, one to add to your library to sit nestled among your most very favorite books and tales. And although the nearly-last line in the book reads, "All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.", even if there are no sequels, we are left with such an abundance that we can fill in the continuum of the tale with our own imaginations and in our dreams.