I, Coriander

I, Coriander
First edition
Author(s)	Sally Gardner
Illustrator	Lydia Corry
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Children's
Publisher	Orion Children's Books
Publication date	August 4, 2005
Pages	320 pp
ISBN	978-1842552902
OCLC Number	59878419
Dewey Decimal	823.914 22
LC Classification	MLCS 2006/45011

I, Coriander is a children's novel by Sally Gardner, published in 2005, set in London at the time of the Puritan Commonwealth. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award. It was also shortlisted for the British Children's Book of the Year and the Stockton Children's Book of the Year, as well as longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

Plot

It tells the story of a girl named Coriander, and her childhood. Coriander starts an adventure she cannot stop when she slips on a pair of silver shoes from an anonymous person. Her mother insists that she must not have them, whilst she herself insists she must. Eventually, her father gives into them and her world begins to fall downhill.

Coriander's dad is arrested and is left with her step mother and step sister. The step mother has sacked Coriander's favorite servant as well as friend. After hiding a doll in the cupboard Coriander's step mother is mad.Coriander cannot wait until her dad's return. But is he going to ?

It all starts to slowly change, a thread that never ends, and one that Coriander cannot control.

She soon finds out all her mother's deepest secrets and must fight the evil Queen Rosmore, her grandfather's 2nd wife who has put him into a trance. To save her mother's beautiful, yet deadly power and her father's faith, she falls in love with Tycho, a fairy prince from the other world, a dangerous thing for her to do. As all things she once knew vanish, she must fight the horrors of the angry, puritan world in which she lives, and those of the world of magic, which holds the secret of time and all things possible. But as a death draws nearer, there is another question to answer. Whose is it?