A charming short story. Wistful, romantic, a bit sad.

i don't really remember this book. I just remember thinking it was really creepy. Especially for children. And yet, I thought it was a children's book. Look at the cover - it's CREEEPY.

The Stone Fey assumes you've read about Damar before, which I didn't realize when I started reading it to my children. Though I've read either The Hero and the Crown or Blue Sword (or both) yearly for the last 20+ years, my munchkies haven't yet read them so they were lost.

I'm going to agree with some of the other reviewers of this book. In that I don't like that it was made a picture book. It would have been fine just being a short story by itself.

Though I do have to say, the pictures were nice. And gave me a better idea of what the stone fey looked like (because honestly I was picturing it being like a thing out of Minecraft).

Normally, I'm very drawn to stories about fey. Because for some weird reason they enthrall me. This one was just kind of so-so. I mean yes, I fully believe that the fey was trying to lure her away forever and a day. I have no doubts about that. As to why that's open to interpretation and my interpretation is definitely not child friendly and as such I won't share it.

I could definitely see reading this to a child. Or a child reading it on their own. Like I said, the pictures were nice. And the story is nice and short. Not a whole lot of big words kids won't understand without help (there's maybe 5 in the whole story...MAYBE). The print's not huge but it's not small so it's of a decent size for small readers.

Definitely recommend if you have a small child (or a child of any age really) that likes fantasy types of novels.

Wonderful Story. Beautiful watercolor illustrations. This is not a children's book and it is not a "picture book" - It is a short story with illustrations. It is about irrational romantic longing and it is set in a pleasant rural fantasy-type world which the author has created in various novels and other short stories.

Hmmm. Sort of unfocused as Maddie never comes firmly to grips with the situation she finds herself in with the fey--first she succumbs, then pulls away, but she refuses to ever tell anyone about it or examine it for herself. McKinley is one of my favorite authors but her writing style has changed in recent years. I guess I want to her to continue writing books like Beauty, which has always been one of my all-time favorites.

I have no idea who decided to make this a picture book. It is a perfectly fine short story in McKinley's usual style; i.e. not decipherable by little kids. Even her YA novels I found more enjoyable as an adult. I can't imagine a younger child following sentences like, by its individual geography the land was a little more arable than much of what lay near it. The pages are mostly full text with only occasional "illustrations" between them, and the the illustrations were more like paintings inspired by the story than depictions of the narrative. I liked some of them (Clapp is good with color and landscape, not so much with people and animals) but didn't feel they added much. The titular Stone Fey wasn't very well developed. The sheep dog was the best character.

The art in this was beautiful. The story was incredibly mild, but I enjoyed it.

While the imagery is well done, I just didn't care for the story.

A standalone story set in Damar, where you'll find family, love, magic, and sheep, all illustrated wonderfully.

This was shelved in the Junior Fiction section of my library...and, being a picture book, even though she's one of my favourite authors, I never bothered. Upon finally reading it, I was blown away. So exquisite and romantic and heart-breaking - I HATE the ending- so perfectly Robin McKinley!

This is entirely an adult story, even if it does have pictures. A mature, obsessive love story, beautifully and brilliantly done.

The Stone Fey is a little book by Robin McKinley, set in Damar, as in The Hero and the Crown. I was requesting some other of her books and this one popped up in the search and I said, "Okay, I'll read that one too."




Like I said, it's a little book. Maddy is a shepherdess and is waiting for her fiancee Donal to come back from a year of working away to save up for their home. She loses a sheep one day and it is returned to her by a stone fey, Fel, a rare magical creature that lives in the Hills beyond her family's home. They meet again, and then again, and then she starts to change in ways that concern her family and her trusty sheepdog, Aerlich. She feels the call to go to the hills daily but one day, goes against it. Is it too late to save her relationship with her family and Donal? Read to find out.