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Peter Dickinson

STARRED REVIEWS at Kirkus

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IICC Kirkus has reviewed 51 of Dickinson's books and has conferred 23 "starred reviews". --including five from 1968 to 1972 for his debut series James Pibble and Changes.

Books not reviews (of 58 distinct books?) Heartsease (1969) A Flight of Dragons (1979) Giant Cold (1984) Mole Hole (1987) The Kin (1998) ! The Weir: Poems by P.D. (2007) In the Palace of the Khans (Peter Dickinson Books, 2012)

Mystery: The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest 1968 Sleep and His Brother 1971 The Lizard in the Cup 1972

The Poison Oracle 1974 The Lively Dead 1975 CYA: The Weathermonger 1969 The Devil's Children 1970

The Dancing Bear 1973 The Gift 1974 The Tears of the Salamander 2003 Inside Granddad 2004 Angel Isle 2007 Picture:

The Green Gene "political science fiction"

City of Gold (book)]] in Gollancz series illus. Michael Foreman
 * http://literature.britishcouncil.org/michael-foreman BCL Foreman

DICKINSON NOTES


 * Jimmy Pibble was a success in one sense that is notable me after visiting more than a hundred writers in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. The U.S. national library reports holding both U.K. and U.S. editions of the first five books (1968 to 1972; all U.S. editions within the year). Both the near-simultaneous publication and the double holding are notable here in the back pages.
 * uk1 us1 2uk 2us 3uk 3us 4uk 4us 5uk 5us
 * book 6, 1979 6us


 * In fact covering his first seven years 1968 to 1974 (relying on our list of Works), almost all 14 books were published in UK/US within the year and LC holds copies of both. ... The only exceptions to double holding are the third Changes novel (Devil's Children 1970 --no US ed. holding until 1986 Delcorte issue of all three books) and the picture book (Iron Lion 1972 [we say 1973]), US ed. only, labeled first edition. Among the eleven double holdings only three US eds. were published in the subsequent calendar year.


 * Changes trilogy: 1uk 1us (1969) 2uk 2us 3uk


 * Picture books: TheIronLion us --1972 not 1973, 1st ed., perhaps an American illustrator; Bedrick/Blackie 1983, illus. Pauline Baynes (32pp)


 * Other adult mystery: TheGreenGene uk us ThePoisonOracle uk us


 * Other CYA novels: EmmaTupper'sDiary uk us --both 1971 not 1970-- TheDancingBear uk us (1973) TheGift uk us (1974)


 * unclassified
 * Merlin Dreams (1988) us 166pp ill.


 * missing
 * Sleep and his brother (2009 NY: Felony & Mayhem Press), mystery fiction stories, 212pp us isbn 9781934609156
 * Earth and air: tales of elemental creatures (Easthampton: Big Mouth Press, 2012) projected December uk isbn 9781618730589; Contents "Troll blood -- Ridiki -- Wizand -- Talaria -- Scops -- The fifth element" ; LCSH include supernatural, myth, goddesses

Fire us 2009 297pp Contents "Phoenix / Peter Dickinson -- Hellhound / Robin McKinley -- Fireworm / Peter Dickinson -- Salamander man / Peter Dickinson -- First flight / Robin McKinley." 3D 2M; LCSH Animals, Mythical (and so on)

Water us 2002 266pp Contents "Mermaid song / by Peter Dickinson -- The sea-king’s son / by Robin McKinley -- Sea serpent / by Peter Dickinson -- Water horse / by Robin McKinley -- Kraken / by Peter Dickinson -- A pool in the desert / by Robin McKinley." 3D 3M; LCSH Animals, Mythical (and so on)

Elementals at peterdickinson.com
 * Earth and Air (Small Beer Press, 2012) - us only?
 * Fire (Putnam, 2009) - us only?
 * Water (David Fickling and Putnam, 2002)
 * Elementals

Chance (1975) uk 254pp

In the Palace of the Khans (Peter Dickinson Books, 2012) http://peterdickinson.com/books/in-the-palace-of-the-khans/

Except his two latest books we match his own "complete listing of Peter's books, arranged in order of publication" --except order within calendar year and 1987/1988 Skeleton-in-Waiting

Three he does not include in Crime and Mystery (18): Green Gene, Summer in the Twenties, Skeleton-

Poetry (1 in 2 eds.) "Peter Dickinson has always thought of himself as a poet."

Children's Books (37) inclg three Others which are thus double-listed

Other (3) Green Gene Summer in the Twenties Skeleton

Short Stories (6) city, merlin, touch and go, water, fire, earth and air --where we list Touch and Go [3 stories] as a novel, the others as "other"

TIMELINE He had been reviewing crime novels at Punch for years when he began working on an idea of his own about 1965.

one childre's book every summer, one crime novel during "two winter terms" 1971 Emma Tupper 1972 Lizard, Bear, Lion 1973 Green Gene, Gift 1974 operatics 1975 BBC the changes 1976 gardening (Tulku) 1978 - Hepzibah another car story; society of authors 1979 dragon science 1982 publishing upheavals 1983 met Robin McKinley, conributed "Flight" to her ed. anthology

1988 Mary-Rose dies; first and second grandson born to his two daughters 1990 Robin movesin, m. 1991-01-03

1996 german prizes for transl. city of gold, tulku

1999 FRSL

2001 Ropemaker printz honor, mytopoeic award 2002 ninth carnegie shortlist

2007 PD BOOKS

2012-10-30 Earth and Air good reviews inclg WSJ 2012-11-20 In the Palace of the Khans