37-491: Faery Rebels , also known as No Ordinary Fairy Tale , is a three-book fantasy series by Canadian author R. J. Anderson . Each book of the series centers around a faery who must venture out of their island to save the faery race. The first novel in the series, Knife , was published in the United Kingdom by Orchard Books on 8 January 2009. Subsequent books in the series were Rebel (2009) and Arrow (2011). Knife
74-511: A CD-ROM encyclopedia (1986–2003). As an educational publishing company Grolier was known for its presence in school libraries and its in-home encyclopedia sales. It also had a strong presence among parents of children under six years old, the market for Grolier's direct mail-to-the-home business. In June 2000, Grolier became part of Scholastic Corporation , which now maintains Scholastic GO , formerly Grolier Online . The company that became encyclopedia publisher Grolier Incorporated
111-517: A US$ 100 million international business, primarily located in the UK, Canada and Asia. Grolier was purchased by Scholastic for US$ 400 million in June 2000. The new owners projected a 30% increase in operating income, although historically Grolier had experienced earnings of 7% to 8% on income. Staff reductions as a means of controlling costs followed soon thereafter, even while an effort was made to augment
148-581: A book to enchant anyone who loves a fairy story." The Horn Book Guide and the School Library Journal echoed similar sentiments, with the School Library Journal writing that "Awkwardly out of place Christian doctrine may distract some readers, but, all in all, this is an enjoyable story that will appeal to fantasy fans." In 2012 Anderson published Swift through Orchard Books. Its sequel, Nomad , followed in 2014 and
185-525: A final book, Torch , in 2021. The series is set within the same universe as the Faery Rebels series but is considered to be separate. Swift follows Ivy, a Cornish piskey born without wings. Years earlier her mother went missing during the Lighting ceremony, an important event within her clan that marked the first time Ivy went outside of the tin mine her clan calls home. Her father assumes that she
222-442: A gift for guitar music, something that placed him into the path of some faeries keen on taking it from him. Linden manages to save him, only for this to make the both of them a target. Rhosmari is a young faery that has led a peaceful, yet sheltered existence, as her home lies on one of several islands that are free of any human contact. Apart from a group who have already left to help the rebel group, her people want little to do with
259-418: A house was robbed or a building collapsed, or if cattle were stolen. In one story, an old woman got the better of a band of spriggans by turning her clothing inside-out (turning clothing supposedly being as effective as holy water or iron in repelling fairies) to gain their loot. On Christmas Eve, spriggans met for a midnight Mass at the bottom of deep mines, and passersby could hear them singing. However, it
296-457: A mostly favourable review of Knife , writing "The setting of the story lacks the intricacy of a fully built fantasy world that readers may be seeking. Instead it relies on the relationship between the characters to draw in the reader. It is a spellbinding fairytale dark enough to keep any boy or girl totally engrossed from beginning to end." School Librarian gave Rebel a favourable review, praising it for its complexity and stating that it "is
333-537: A productive rivalry among the subsidiaries, giving their executives broad authority and profit-sharing incentives. In 1959, Murphy hired John G. Ryan , formerly president of competitor P.F. Collier & Son , as president of The Richards Company. By 1968, Richards' sales, distributing the American Peoples Encyclopedia , exceeded that of the other Grolier encyclopedia subsidiaries. In 1968, Grolier's annual sales were over $ 181 million, and
370-612: A section of the Parkland Walk (a disused railway line). The sculpture was installed in 1993. If walking along the Parkland Walk from Finsbury Park to Highgate station , the Spriggan is to the right just before the disused railway platforms of the former Crouch End station . To the left, on the southside of the Parkland Walk is Crouch Hill Park where Ashmount School has been located since January 2013. The sculpture
407-529: A separate series set in the same universe, Ivy of the Delve , which consists of two books, Swift and Nomad . Knife is a young faery hunter. The faery race is dying off and Knife is convinced that humanity may hold the key to saving them from almost certain extinction as their magic is slowly disappearing, and will not last much longer. However her Queen is adamant that faeries and humans should never mix. Despite this, Knife defies her ruler, meeting and befriending
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#1732798168683444-746: A venerable upper-level (even adult-level) publication, will work in the long run. The name Grolier is retained as the Scholastic website Scholastic GO . The company exists as Grolier Incorporated. Franklin Watts Inc. was formed in 1942. The company was sold to Grolier in 1957. When the namesake founder retired in 1967, he moved to London to start Franklin Watts Ltd. in 1969. Franklin Watts retired again in 1976. When Grolier acquired Children's Press in 1995, much of Franklin Watts were published under
481-468: A way to unite the magical folk of Cornwall—or doom herself, Martin and everyone she loves to death at the evil piskey queen's hand. Orchard Books Grolier was one of the largest American publishers of general encyclopedias, including The Book of Knowledge (1910), The New Book of Knowledge (1966), The New Book of Popular Science (1972), Encyclopedia Americana (1945), Academic American Encyclopedia (1980), and numerous incarnations of
518-641: Is sometimes mistaken for the Green Man or Pan . Spriggans have been featured as fey creatures in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game since the 1980s. Additionally, spriggans – in the style of the Parkland Walk sculpture – can be found in The Elder Scrolls series of video games and they are portrayed as females. In the Beyblade Burst series,
555-469: The Cornish plural spyrysyon 'spirits'. Spriggans have often been depicted as grotesquely ugly, wizened old men with large childlike heads. They were said to be found at old ruins, cairns , and barrows guarding buried treasure. Although small in stature, they have often been considered to be the ghosts of giants and retained gigantic strength, and in one story collected by Robert Hunt, they showed
592-796: The Doubleday's Encyclopedia) (1941), American Peoples Encyclopedia (1962), The New Book of Knowledge (1966), the Academic American Encyclopedia (1980), The New Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia (1985 CD-ROM), and the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (1995). Grolier conducted its encyclopedia sales through subsidiaries Americana Corporation; The Grolier Society; Inc.; R.H. Hinckley Company; Spencer International Press, Inc.; and The Richards Company, Inc. Each subsidiary distributed publications as designated by Grolier. Murphy encouraged
629-583: The PlayStation . The video games they released include: Grolier Interactive ceased releasing video games when Grolier was bought by Scholastic. Spriggan A spriggan / s p r ɪ dʒ ə n / is a legendary creature from Cornish folklore . Spriggans are particularly associated with West Penwith in Cornwall . Spriggan is a dialect word, pronounced with the grapheme <gg> as /d͡ʒ/, sprid-jan, and not sprigg-an, borrowed from
666-467: The 1980s, with its mail order business expanding, Grolier returned to profitability. On August 8, 1986, Grolier announced a joint venture partnership with Hal Roach Studios and Robert Halmi, Inc. (both of these companies were later known as Qintex Entertainment) to set up a joint venture, Grolier Home Video, which was designed to set up adaptations of the Grolier book properties. In 1988 Grolier
703-531: The 1992 edition was the first to deliver video and sound. The last CD-ROM edition published was the 2003 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia . In 1982, Grolier formed a subsidiary called Grolier Electronic Publishing Inc . Grolier Electronic Publishing Inc. was renamed Grolier Interactive Inc . in February 1996. They made electronic encyclopedias for the Amiga and video games for DOS , Windows , Macintosh and
740-489: The Children's Press imprint. When Hachette sold Grolier to Scholastic Corporation in 2000, Scholastic took U.S. rights to Children's Press and Franklin Watts as well. The UK branch exists today as an imprint of Hachette UK's Hachette Children's Books. Orchard Books was founded in 1986 by Grolier as a children's publisher. When editors Neal Porter, Richard Jackson and Melanie Kroupa left Orchard for DK in 1996, Grolier sued
777-504: The ability to swell to enormous size. Hunt associated these spirits with the hillfort known as Trencrom Hill in Cornwall. Spriggans were notorious for their unpleasant dispositions, and delighted in working mischief against those who offended them. They raised sudden whirlwinds to terrify travellers, sent storms to blight crops, and sometimes stole away mortal children, leaving their ugly changelings in their place. They were blamed if
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#1732798168683814-818: The character Shu Kurenai owns a Spriggan Beyblade, represented by a red oni. In the English dub and Hasbro releases however, the Beyblade had its name changed to Spryzen. In the video game World of Warcraft , the Spriggan are a race of fae loyal to the Drust, a dark and twisted version of the fae. In the Sword Art Online series, the Spriggans are one of the nine races in ALfheim Online, known to have
851-658: The company held a 30 percent market share as the leading publisher of encyclopedias in the United States. Grolier also established a successful mail order subsidiary. In the 1970s, Grolier declined financially. Fred Murphy retired, and the company merged the sales subsidiaries into what became a less profitable unitary sales force. Grolier also made ill-fated investments in non-publishing ventures, including mobile homes. In 1976, Grolier lost $ 77 million on sales of $ 247 million. It threatened to file for bankruptcy if its creditors did not agree to restructure its debts. In
888-420: The disappearances. Ivy has been exiled from her home due to the jealousy of her clan's queen, Betony. She's not alone, as the half spriggan, half faery Martin is with her. Together they must find a way to successfully convince the others that they are slowly being poisoned while also trying to figure out the cause for Ivy's strange dreams. Plagued by treachery, betrayal and desertion on every side, Ivy must find
925-544: The evil Empress sets her sights on enslaving Rhosmari's people. Critical reception for the series has been mostly positive. Knife was widely praised for its story and imagination, and Strange Horizons commented that the relationship between Paul and Knife worked especially well as it "manages to be both completely individually theirs and also more universally that of a couple of any kind, needing to negotiate their differences—of background, experience or just habit—with flexibility and generosity of spirit." NATE Classroom wrote
962-459: The faeries from the mainland and their politics, but Rhosmari leaves alone to retrieve a precious artefact, the Stone of Naming, in the hopes that its retrieval could prevent them getting drawn into the fray. This proves to be easier said than done, as the young faery quickly experiences major culture shock due to the many differences between the mainland and the remote islands. Things grow worse when
999-706: The firm in 1912. Grolier's common stock began trading publicly in 1954, and it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1965. Under Murphy's leadership, by the mid-1940s, Grolier became one of the largest publishers of general encyclopedias, including The Book of Knowledge and the Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier also published the Grolier Encyclopedia (based on the Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopedia and
1036-428: The paraplegic artist Paul McCormick, to whom she is instantly and inexplicably drawn. Linden is a teenage faery that must venture out into the human world to find a way to save her people, as she is one of the few among them with any usable knowledge of the outside world. In the process she meets Timothy, who was taken in by his cousin, Paul McCormick, and his wife Peri, after his boarding school suspends him. Timothy has
1073-464: The print edition. Eventually, the CD-ROM edition was quite different from the print edition. Grolier published the encyclopedia with numerous name variations: The Electronic Encyclopedia (1986), The Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia (1987), The New Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia (1988–91), The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (1992). The 1990 edition was the first to feature pictures, and
1110-526: The sales force. Cuts occurred every year between 2000 and 2007, leaving a much-depleted work force to carry out the duties of maintaining a large encyclopedia database. Scholastic, which specializes in works for the K-8 market (Kindergarten-to-8th grade), has sought to position the Encyclopedia Americana as a reference resource for schools. It remains to be seen whether that strategy, applied to
1147-610: The trio. DK and Grolier settled the lawsuit. When Hachette sold Grolier to Scholastic Corporation in 2000, they included the U.S. branch of Orchard Books while retaining the UK branch. Grolier's first CD-ROM publication was the text-only Academic American Encyclopedia on CD-ROM in 1985, and was one of the first commercial CD-ROM titles. The text was based on the Academic American Encyclopedia , which comprised 30,000 entries and 9 million words. The editions were updated quarterly—a rate which outpaced
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1184-449: Was also published in the United States through HarperCollins and was re-titled Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter . HarperCollins also re-titled the second book, Rebel , which they released as Wayfarer in 2010. These books would later receive another United States release through Enclave Publishing in 2015, where they were released under their original UK book titles but with a new series title, No Ordinary Fairy Tale . Anderson later released
1221-665: Was founded by Walter M. Jackson (1863–1923) as the Grolier Society. Jackson had been the partner of Horace Everett Hooper in publishing the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica and in developing its 11th edition. He split with Hooper in 1908–1909 in a nasty legal fight after failing to wrest control of the Britannica from Hooper. The Grolier Society specialized in publishing extra-fine editions of classics and rare literature. The Society
1258-576: Was named after the Grolier Club , which had been founded in 1884 to advance the arts involved in making books and which was itself named after a well-known French bibliophile , Jean Grolier de Servières . In 1910, Jackson purchased the rights to publish the British The Children's Encyclopædia under the name The Book of Knowledge . In 1936, the company was acquired by its senior sales executive, Fred P. Murphy, who had joined
1295-527: Was not spriggans but the buccas or knockers who were associated with tin mining , and who played a protective role towards the miners. Based on the collections of Robert Hunt and William Bottrell, Katharine Briggs characterized the spriggans as fairy bodyguards. The English Dialect Dictionary (1905) compared them to the trolls of Scandinavia. A sculpture of a spriggan by Marilyn Collins can be seen in Crouch End , London , in some arches lining
1332-769: Was purchased by the French media company Hachette , which owned a well-known French-language encyclopedia, the Hachette Encyclopedia . The sale price was $ 450 million. Hachette was later absorbed by the French conglomerate, the Lagardère Group . In 1995, Grolier acquired Children's Press , moving its operations from Chicago to New York City and Danbury, Connecticut . In 1999, Grolier had revenues of $ 450 million and earnings of approximately $ 45 million, with $ 4.5 million in Internet revenues. It had
1369-418: Was stolen away by spriggans and becomes emotionally and physically distant from his children, leaving Ivy to assume their daily care. When another faery goes missing the clan is sure that it is due to the spriggans. Ivy eventually meets Martin, a man who seems to offer a solution to her issues but has secrets that could prove dangerous to the clan – especially as they suspect him to be a spriggan responsible for
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