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Tantalize: Kieren's Story Paperback - 2011

by Cynthia Leitich Smith; Ming Doyle (Illustrator)

Illustrated by new talent Doyle, Smith's "Tantalize" is reimagined as a graphic novel--seen through the eyes of werewolf Kieren. Young adult.


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Cynthia Leitich Smith is the acclaimed author of the prose novel of TANTALIZE as well as ETERNAL, a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, and BLESSED, all set in the same fictional universe. She says of TANTALIZE, "An unjust accusation. A true love in peril. It's enough to make you open your teeth and howl." A member of the faculty at the Vermont College MFA program in writing for children and young adults, she lives in Austin, Texas.

Ming Doyle was born in 1984 to an Irish-American sailor and a Chinese-Canadian librarian. Since earning her BFA from Cornell University in 2007, she has depicted the sequential exploits of zombie superheroes, demonic cheerleaders, vengeful cowboys, and dapper mutants. TANTALIZE marks her first full-length graphic novel as well as her first encounter with a were-opossum. She lives in Boston.

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  • Title Tantalize: Kieren's Story
  • Author Cynthia Leitich Smith; Ming Doyle (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Candlewick Press (MA), cambridge mass
  • Date 2011-08-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9780763641146 / 0763641146
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.2 x 6.7 x 0.53 in (25.91 x 17.02 x 1.35 cm)
  • Ages 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Reading level 740
  • Library of Congress subjects Vampires, Graphic novels
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010043152
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

This is the graphic novel version of TANTALIZE so it's a book that might appeal to reluctant readers and to people who really are visual thinkers. It's gothic, it's dark. But it also has humor. There's romance, very sweet romance, and there's controversy and there's justice issues and bad boys don't always get away, but you're not quite sure.
—NPR Tell Me More

This format- and genre-blending story delivers on several counts as a vampire-werewolf adventure, a mystery, a romance with teeth and claws, an authentic look at diversity (both ethnic and species), and a darn good read.
—Booklist

Leitich Smith, who first published TANTALIZE as a young adult novel, provides a face-paced, twisty, enjoyable ride and compelling characters who develop as the story unfolds. Doyle's illustrations capture the intensity of the emotions between the star-crossed couple.
—Publishers Weekly

Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2011, Page 52
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2012, Page 114
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/15/2011, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/22/2011, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 09/01/2011, Page 191
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, 10/01/2011, Page 410

About the author

Cynthia Leitich Smith is the acclaimed author of the prose novel of Tantalize as well as Eternal, a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, and Blessed, all set in the same fictional universe. She says of Tantalize, "An unjust accusation. A true love in peril. It's enough to make you open your teeth and howl." A member of the faculty at the Vermont College MFA program in writing for children and young adults, she lives in Austin, Texas.

Ming Doyle was born in 1984 to an Irish-American sailor and a Chinese-Canadian librarian. Since earning her BFA from Cornell University in 2007, she has depicted the sequential exploits of zombie superheroes, demonic cheerleaders, vengeful cowboys, and dapper mutants. Tantalize marks her first full-length graphic novel as well as her first encounter with a were-opossum. She lives in Boston.

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