Sarah Mlynowski
Author of Fairest of All
About the Author
Sarah Mlynowski was born on January 4, 1977 in Montreal, Canada. She attended McGill University where she graduated with a degree in English Literature. She later moved to Toronto to work for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. She used her romance publishing experiences to fuel her first novel Milkrun. She show more now writes full-time and her other works include Fishbowl, Monkey Business, Me Vs. Me, and Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have). She also writes the Magic in Manhattan series. Her title's, Bad Hair Day and Beauty Queen made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: deannacarlyle.com
Series
Works by Sarah Mlynowski
Whatever After 5 Book Set Pack: Whatever After #1: Fairest of All, Whatever After #2: If the Shoe Fits, Whatever After… (2014) 37 copies
Sink or Swim 18 copies
A Nice Fling is Hard to Find 4 copies
Upside-Down Magic #7 1 copy
Whatever after - Abby in Oz 1 copy
Milkrun Sale 1 copy
A Dragon for Hanukkah 1 copy
A Little Bit Broken 1 copy
Associated Works
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1977-01-04
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Canada (birth)
USA - Birthplace
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Places of residence
- Montréal, Québec, Canada (birth)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
New York, New York, USA - Education
- McGill University (English literature)
- Occupations
- editor
novelist
author
writer - Relationships
- Ambrose, Elissa (mother)
- Short biography
- Sarah Mlynowski was born on January 4, 1977 in Montreal, Canada. She is one of the daughters of the romance writer Elissa Ambrose. Sarah started writing books when she was three years old. Kind of. She would tell them and her mom would transcribe them. They were all about Princesses named Sarah. After learning to use her own pencil, she continued scribbling stories throughout elementary and high school, and decided study English literature in college, like her mother.
After graduating with an honors degree in English literature from McGill University, Sarah moved to Toronto to work for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. She co-edited the USA Today bestselling chick-lit collection "Grils' night in" and later "Gril's night out", and 21 Proms.
While Sarah never met the famous model Fabio (Lanzoni), she used her romance publishing experiences to fuel her first novel "Milkrun", published when she was twenty-four, romance which has since been published in 16 countries, selling over 600,000 copies around the globe. When her second novel, "Fishbowl", received even more accolades, including a starred review from Booklist and being named one of Waldenbooks Best Women's Fiction novels of 2002, she moved to New York City to write full-time.
Since then, she and has written Chick Lit novels for Red Dres Ink ("As seen on TV", "Monkey business" and "Me vs. me") and the Teen Lit series "All about Rachel" for Radom House ("Bras & Broomsticks", "Frogs and French Kisses" and "Spells & Sleeping Bags"). She has been featured in the short story collections, "American girls about town" and "Sixteen: Stories about that sweet and bitter birthday" and she also co-wrote the first ever guide to writing chick lit, "See Jane write". She is currenlty co-writing a book for teens called "How to be bad" awesome teen writers Lauren Myrcacle and E. Lockhart.
In 2004, Sarah married with Todd, and they went to Kenya and Seychelles for their honeymoon.
Members
Reviews
{My thoughts} – I really am a huge fan of this series. I think it is brilliantly written and I always look forward for the new releases in the series. I have enjoyed getting to know Nory and the other students that are a part of the Upside Down Magic Class. This series truly helps you to explore your imagination.
In this all new book Nory and her friend Marigold decide to start a peaceful protest. They are upset because the principal has banned the newest toy fad from being allowed at their school period. He found the toy to be obnoxious and disruptive therefore he banned them from school grounds. Nory comes up with the idea to plan a protest and Marigold is the one that has to help her execute it.
The whole idea is to shrink as many children in the 5th grade class as a means of proving that they all stand together. Marigold is the only student that has the ability to shrink others students. She agrees to go along with the plan because she has been practicing making things big and she believes she will be able to make all the students bigger after they are done with the protest. Which she is hoping will result in them being able to bring their toys back on school grounds again.
I’m sure you can guess that it turns into a bit of a disaster, I mean what can one expect. Marigold is an Upside Down Magic kid, which means she doesn’t always have full control of her magic. A lot happens in this book that makes you understand that friendship, unity, and sticking to one’s beliefs are key to a successful peaceful protest. However, I’m sure that they could have found a more logical means of protesting had they considered the possibility of putting more thought towards it.
This book was a great addition to the series. It had all the key elements of all the previous books and it kept me interested in the story line. I look forward to when my littles will be able to read these books with me, or when I can read them to them, because I really enjoy the stories that unfold within their pages. I also look forward to reading any future books written by these three authors as well as previous books I have not yet had the pleasure of devouring.… (more)
In this all new book Nory and her friend Marigold decide to start a peaceful protest. They are upset because the principal has banned the newest toy fad from being allowed at their school period. He found the toy to be obnoxious and disruptive therefore he banned them from school grounds. Nory comes up with the idea to plan a protest and Marigold is the one that has to help her execute it.
The whole idea is to shrink as many children in the 5th grade class as a means of proving that they all stand together. Marigold is the only student that has the ability to shrink others students. She agrees to go along with the plan because she has been practicing making things big and she believes she will be able to make all the students bigger after they are done with the protest. Which she is hoping will result in them being able to bring their toys back on school grounds again.
I’m sure you can guess that it turns into a bit of a disaster, I mean what can one expect. Marigold is an Upside Down Magic kid, which means she doesn’t always have full control of her magic. A lot happens in this book that makes you understand that friendship, unity, and sticking to one’s beliefs are key to a successful peaceful protest. However, I’m sure that they could have found a more logical means of protesting had they considered the possibility of putting more thought towards it.
This book was a great addition to the series. It had all the key elements of all the previous books and it kept me interested in the story line. I look forward to when my littles will be able to read these books with me, or when I can read them to them, because I really enjoy the stories that unfold within their pages. I also look forward to reading any future books written by these three authors as well as previous books I have not yet had the pleasure of devouring.… (more)
{My Thoughts} – Abby and Jonah are two very interesting, yet charming siblings. They have a wonderful dynamic that helps to make them out to be funny and attention grabbing. This story begins with Jonah waking Abby in the middle of the night complaining that the mirror in the basement is making noises and changing colors. She although she is scared goes with him o the basement to investigate his claims. It turns out that the mirror is magic and it transports them into another world.
The mirror seemingly takes them and drops them smack dab in the middle of Snow White’s fairy tale. If you know me, you know I enjoy reading fairy tale retellings and this book is one of the better have have come across for children. I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series and seeing the personality of the children develope throughout the stories. I am also interested in seeing how creative she gets with re-writing the stories. This first one was a job well done, I hope that the author can continue to exceed my expectations in future books.
I really enjoyed reading this book and now I understand why my daughter loves this series so much. In fact my daughter is currently reading book five and I am playing catch up, she started them in school last year. It is really hard finding books for her to read that she is interested in because she struggles with reading, but she really gets into these books and enjoys them and as long as we can keep finding books that hold her interest I am going to keep buying them, reviewing them and sharing them with others. I figure if my kid can enjoy it, I am sure some other parents will be grateful to know that they exist in case they want to try them with their kid. I highly recommend for the reluctant reader.… (more)
The mirror seemingly takes them and drops them smack dab in the middle of Snow White’s fairy tale. If you know me, you know I enjoy reading fairy tale retellings and this book is one of the better have have come across for children. I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series and seeing the personality of the children develope throughout the stories. I am also interested in seeing how creative she gets with re-writing the stories. This first one was a job well done, I hope that the author can continue to exceed my expectations in future books.
I really enjoyed reading this book and now I understand why my daughter loves this series so much. In fact my daughter is currently reading book five and I am playing catch up, she started them in school last year. It is really hard finding books for her to read that she is interested in because she struggles with reading, but she really gets into these books and enjoys them and as long as we can keep finding books that hold her interest I am going to keep buying them, reviewing them and sharing them with others. I figure if my kid can enjoy it, I am sure some other parents will be grateful to know that they exist in case they want to try them with their kid. I highly recommend for the reluctant reader.… (more)
{My Thoughts} – This book started out a little different. Abby is insistent on going through the magic mirror, but Jonah no longer remembers it or the fairy tales in which they had visited. If you’d like to know more info about that, you will need to read book six.
Abby and Jonah get to go into one of my favorite fairy tales in this book. I have always had such a huge interest in beauty in the beast. Mainly because Beauty is a bookworm and loves books the same as I do. This story also helps to show that people aren’t always as they first appear and once you get to know someone you will understand that.
I really enjoyed reading this book and I know that any child that loves fairy tale retellings will enjoy it as well. My daughter devoured this books in about a month. Sometimes it isn’t easy to get her to read something but she read all seven and she really enjoyed them. I love it when you come across books that she is easily able to enjoy.
This book has a side lesson to it like all the others do. In this one it helps to teach you why jealousy isn’t a good emotion. I know all to often how easy it is for a child to get jealous of another child. Given the time of year it is right now it makes since that children will get really jealous of each other. I think this might be a good book for girls to read, to help remind them that they don’t need to be jealous and that when you accept yourself and your situation you will see that there is plenty about you that makes you special.… (more)
Abby and Jonah get to go into one of my favorite fairy tales in this book. I have always had such a huge interest in beauty in the beast. Mainly because Beauty is a bookworm and loves books the same as I do. This story also helps to show that people aren’t always as they first appear and once you get to know someone you will understand that.
I really enjoyed reading this book and I know that any child that loves fairy tale retellings will enjoy it as well. My daughter devoured this books in about a month. Sometimes it isn’t easy to get her to read something but she read all seven and she really enjoyed them. I love it when you come across books that she is easily able to enjoy.
This book has a side lesson to it like all the others do. In this one it helps to teach you why jealousy isn’t a good emotion. I know all to often how easy it is for a child to get jealous of another child. Given the time of year it is right now it makes since that children will get really jealous of each other. I think this might be a good book for girls to read, to help remind them that they don’t need to be jealous and that when you accept yourself and your situation you will see that there is plenty about you that makes you special.… (more)
Lists
Awards
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 78
- Also by
- 6
- Members
- 16,326
- Popularity
- #1,391
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 389
- ISBNs
- 634
- Languages
- 15
- Favorited
- 12
Ever since the beginning of the series this is the one story that Jonah has always hoped they’d be sent into. When they land in this story and piece it all together he isn’t sure what he should believe. He wants it to be real, but then he doesn’t. He wants to meet Jack but then he doesn’t. Eventually Abby is able to convince him to get a move on with the story line, but he isn’t real certain that it is what he wants in the beginning.
I have to say out of this entire series, this is a close close tie to one of my more favorite books. My favorite currently being the one that takes place Down the Rabbit Hole. I love how the author is able to pull the story together by adding bits and pieces of the original series along with bits and pieces of a whole new story of her own making.
In this story Jack’s mom sells the cow and not Jack. So Abby, Jonah and Jack have to figure our a way to get the magic beans from the trader. When they finally come up with a plan, it isn’t the plan they’d originally thought of, but they reluctantly agree to the terms. A lot happens once they get possession of the magic beans, but in the end they figure things out.
I really enjoyed reading through this book and I look forward to reading the next book in the series. I am also extremely happy that this wasn’t the last book in the series, because I was almost certain that once they finally landed in this story it would be the end of the series. With that said, I am glad there are still more books to come out in the future.… (more)